Piers Browne - Painter-etcher

Etchings for Sale

The works of Piers Browne can also be seen "in the flesh" in a permanent stock at the following dealers;

NORTH
Harrogate	Godfrey and Watt	Phone 01423 525 300 mail@godfreyandwatt.co.uk www.godfreyandwatt.co.uk

Leeds	The Craft Centre Leeds City Art Gallery, The Headrow, Central Leeds ( One man in ’05)

Thirsk	Zillah Bell	Tel: 01845 522479

Skipton	PJK Art and Poetry Gallery 3 Mount Pleasant, High Street, Skipton, North Yorkshire , BD23 1JZ	Tel: 01756 793164 www.pjkgallery.co.uk

York	The Blake Gallery 18 Blake Street, YORK YO1 8QH THIS GALLERY EXCLUSIVELY KEEPS IN STOCK EVERY ETCHING EXTANT - about 160 - repro'd in Piers' Tree book.	Tel: 01904 733666 Fax: 01904 733730 info@blakegallery.com www.blakegallery.com

York	Pyramid Gallery 43 Stonegate, York, YO1 8AW (Open all week)	Tel: 01904 641 187

Reeth	Phillip Bastow Cabinet Maker, Silver Street, Reeth, N.Yorks, DL11 6SP Open Mon-Sat 8-5	Tel: 01748 884555

Helmsley	Look Gallery	Tel: 01439 770545

Halifax	Northedge Fine Art 10 Denholme Gate Road, Hipperholme, HALIFAX, HX3 8JQ Only 20 minutes from M62 junctions 25 0r 26	Tel: 01422 206927 info@northedgeframing.com www.northedgeframing.com

Lancaster	Bellwood & Wright 56 Penny St, Lancaster, LA1 1XF (They stock the odd oil)	Tel: 01524 35656 www.bellwoodandwrightfineart.co.uk
SOUTH
Cambridge	Cambridge Book & Print Gallery 49 Newnham Road, Cambridge CB3 9EY	Tel/Fax: 01223 694264 www.slybrownfox.com Email: cambridgeprints@aol.com

London	NEW GRAFTON GALLERY selling the trees books and Wensleydale books.	Tel 0207 3529881

London	Henry Sotheran 2 Sackville Street, Piccadilly, London, W1S 3DP	Tel: 020 7439 6151

Herefordshire	The Old Chapel gallery, Pembridge HR6 9HB	Tel 01544 388842 www.oldchapelgallery.co.uk

To purchase Etchings:
Simply send a note indicating the etching you are interested in together with 25% of the price and Piers will send the print in a postal tube.
The balance is due on receipt of the print.
(If the print is not to your liking, you can return it for refund or replacement) .
Rarely are there more than 50 prints for each etching with each etching having the studio emboss as authenticity. No two etchings are ever quite the same because, although Piers insists on doing the printing himself, each etching is hand inked and wiped and printed to make each one an original and thus worth their growing value price – unlike a signed photographic reproduction!

To see over 160 etchings reproduced in Piers Tree book, please return to the home page and click on the Tree book note.

PIERS BROWNE
Heugh, Nappa Scar
Askrigg, Leyburn
North Yorkshire DL8 3JY
Phone: (01969) 650 434
Email: piersbrowne@heugh-wensleydale.freeserve.co.uk

THE ETCHINGS
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"Basking, baking under sunshine..."

Best view in Wensleydale this, from 'Scarth Nick' above Redmire looking south- west. It's haytime and evening, and the land thrums still with the heat of day. Though only 8" square, this gem will be submitted to the R.A.Summer Show and hopefully hung. The title is from a poem by Piers he wrote in the '80's, a poem published in his third book WENSLEYDALE, available for half price, �12.50 signed.

£ 195

Spring evening: Beech at Laithkirk, Durham

THIS is the latest - and first etching out of '07 It did take about 200 days of '06 on and off to make. Commissioned to show their 5 boys cycling about their two wondrously virile beech trees near Middleton in Teesdale, the 'patrons' have allowed the artist to sell 35 of the edition of 40, of an etching Piers reckons bursting with vibrant burgeoning Spring colour. It is a large Original Print, 28 ins high x 17 across, and the result of FOUR plates' workings,the idea being to show a golden glow of late spring's strong low sun that makes even a Copper Beech's branches turn bright crimson in a 'perfect' light. It will be seen at the Blake Gallery, in central York but has been submitted to the RA Summer Show's judges. Watch this space.

£ 345

A huge peak, black and huge...

Lines from Wordsworth's wonderful sonnet, set on Ullswater where he', as a lad, 'borrowed' a row boat to explore the lake at night - and gor terrified.(The sonnet begins "One summer night..." This etching is one of a dozen of Piers' best etching 'illustrations' made 20 years ago for his Wordsworth book. It, and "made one long bathing...' are but a foot across, if that, in size. All dozen are similarly framed - and would look magnificent on a wall together!

£ 175

Made one long bathing of a summer's day...

lines from wordsworth made into an etchings in the late '80's, this, and, on this site, "A Huge peak, black and huge..." are among a dozen of the best of 50 etchings mad for Piers' WILLIAM WORDSWORTH: A LAKELAND ANTHOLOGY handmade book published nearly 20 years ago now. THET ARE ALL to be seen at THE BLAKE GALLERY now, for a month or so, in central York, just literally a minute's slow walk south of the Minster in Blake St (by Macdonald's).

£ 175

from Ellerkin, Wensleydale: September afternoon

A fairly grangly LARGE etching - about 23 across x 14 inches high - which the artist had un-mothballed from its last printing in 1996. There are now but 14 available from the edition of 75. The 3 plates which combined make up this dramatic scene,were made in 1996, and made from a large oil - so the effects are authentic and not imagined!

£ 225

Larch in March: Dawn on the Common

Drawn on Strensall Common a few miles north of York this 20 x 20 inch image was repro'd in Piers' Glorious Trees book and is thus one of the 167 in that series. (See under "Glorious Trees" on the Home Page) BUT Piers loves it so much he's printing some to be shown at 34 Lennox Gardens in Nov (07712189979 for Invite). In ALL PIERS' ETCHINGS, ONLY he PRINTS THEM. Consequently, with about 250 extant ones to be editioned at any one time he only does say half a dozen or ten off any one plate in a day - if it's off large plates, and that's a 15 hour day what with the mising of inks and trials to see if he's re-won the same colours exactly as the mastercopy no 1.

£ 240

Hardrow Force, April afternoon: Wensleydale

This colour version will be first aired at Piers' preview nights in London, 34 Lennox Gardens (see Agent's number etc in the OIL paintings section). It depicts Britain's highest without-break waterfall near Hawes, when the first buds are about to burst into leaf. The two non prominent bathers were cribbed: Renoir 'lent' the seated girl washing her feet, while the girl tentatively wading in is from a Greek vase. Real models helped the artist with light and shade, but their poses are lovely and'classic'. This is one of Piers' largest etchings at 28" high x 22' wide: framed it'd be 41 x 32.

£ 375

"The snowdrops bow before each stinging shower..."

Drawn at Hardraw Church in Wensleydale, this is, with its border of yew branches, about 11 x 9 inches and depicts a wedding in the glow of the church while outside snowdrops bow away in the icy winter weather. It will be one of about a dozen colour images in the '08 book SONNETS FOR A SIREN but an Artist's proof will be available at York's Pyramid Gallery all December this year in their Christmas show.

£ 165

Incoming tide

Rather a saucy sea shanty this, but to go with SONNETS FOR A SIREN book that is out in late march '08. It is a tiny ETCHING in two plates of exactly 6 inches square of which 5 Artist proofs are available before the '08 launch, and combines romance of sea with more obvious type of romance. Piers is already accepting deposits of �250 for this �2500 book of the etchings and type - which, if deposited for NOW, will cost �2000 i.e 1750 to pay in March '08 on delivery of the book... a saving of �500 for 'subscribers' to this very lmited 920) handmade book. piers has also discovere that to make and bind the book is costing him about 1500 per book at the least so soon the book, as prices rise and Piers' don't, is really at 'cost' for subscribers - (now 5 by 1st May this year))

£ 165

"A flare from sun brands each one redder still..."

This irridescent little 7" x 7" etching, finished after a month's work on 23 June this year, is based on Piers' lines from SONNETS FOR A SIREN about a vixen leading her cubs out of a wood in the Dales in the last sunburst of an Autumn evening. It is a fact that foxes turn even redder than here depicted, but in contrast to such a sun setting the proportion of their 'branding' is about right.

£ 165

"It feasts upon the play of light on sea..."

9 x 7 iches in size, this etching (with some areas bitten right through to get the shimmering effect) was drawn near a Lovers Leap at Sidmouth, Devon. The view is astonishing of bare - and it would be a 'plain' - beautifully glimmering sea.

It is the last day of May 2006, and this is the first time that suscribers to the handmade book SONNETS FOR A SIREN can register with Piers.This etching is one of about 10 (of larger ones) to be icluded in the book itself. The format of the book - and it will be in an edition of only 20 - is 'portrait' shaped, being 17 x 12 inches wide. There will be just 27 sonnets in each book and every other one will have an etching, most in colour, opposite it.

£ 165

Wave-battered Olive: Girne, N Cypus

This jewel-like small (8" square) etching is printed half in real gold oil ink. This is complimentary to the subtle violet greys which offest the brilliant white splash. It is destined for Piers' SONNETS FOR A SIREN book, where it will look possibly even more dramatic although not so alluing with the rainbow's lovely colours. It will be seen next in Piers' One-man at The Blake Gallery in YORK from October 7 - 28 (01904 733666)

£ 165

"great shoals of leaves..." Butchered olive

Drawn while the lorries rumbled by a foot from Piers' feet as they built an office block on an ancient olive grove tended in living memory by the owner's gt gt gt gt grandfather in Kyrenia,(Girne) n Cyprus. Piers has indeed saved it in reality and here as a 'print'. the Cypriots DO like the trees, but moreso revenue. The etching is exactly 6 inches high x 5 across and 2 Artist proofs was first shown at Godfrey & Watt in Harrogate from April 1st - and proofs are there still. it is in SONNETS FOR A SIREN, piers' book of poems and drypoints

£ 165

WENSLEYDALE book ...REFOUND!!

A kind son "tidying' a cupboard refound 10 boxes of Piers' WENSLEYDALE book which folk have asked for for the last few years. This isn't a fib as i would have loved to sell these 200 a few years back. They are in mint condition and I'll sell at 1/2 price and signed: just add �5 for P&P and I'll post anywhere in UK within a few days. Burlington Fine Art in Burlington Arcade have a copy for browsing in, and Stratus Books stock, in Bedale N Yorks,(as does the Blake Gallery in York) both my TREES and this re-found book.

£ 12.50

Bootham Bar from York Minster.

This is a spectacular and large etching of about 31 x 22 inches (79 x 56 cms) and is here placed as there are only 35 'pulls' left off the single heavily worked copper plate. It shows the vast view (which Piers drew on the spot with a policeman guarding him from burning or defacing the Minster - the oldest policeforce in the UK is this Minster's one or twopolicemen!)from the south-east tower of York Minster looking north-west over one of the magnificent "Bars' or gates, which are doorways through the city's walls. It took Piers 6 months to etch the scene and a little less to draw it out - possibly over ten years ago now. The Blake gallery in York always have a 'pull' on show, and it's interesting to compare different impressions off the plate; it takes Piers well over an hour to ink up the plate (by hand of course) as it is.

£ 345

Pointe du Castelli, s Brittany in the Spring

This is a complex etching - a smaller black & white version being the title page for the 2008 handmade book SONNETS FOR A SIREN - of a renowned piece of sea seen in Brittany in mid May on an intense, sparkling evening. It can be seen at the BLAKE GALLERY in central York from Oct 6 '06 at the start of a month's major one man of many large new seascape and landscape oils - and etchings - one large oil of WHITBY redone is under Pintings for Sale.

£ 265

Bather: Strawberry tree, Killarney

In the Trees section also, but best seen here - as one, along with "Awaiting the second: Myrtle tree" the artist's absolute favourite etching repro'd in his Glorious Trees book, the bather had in 2000 been bathing each day for many years asnd was no spring chicken! It is a lake, but sea fed being near the Atlantic in s w Ireland. Strawberry trees are mostly ragged and their fruit disgusting to humanity, but they existed BEFORE the Ice Age and survived its covering in this corner of the UK. The peculiarly beautiful iridescent bale blue light is due to proximity to the ocean, and was captured midday one boisterous July day. The price has risen 10% as others but Piers will send you this FREE P&P

£ 204

Love on the Rocks

This is one of 20 of Piers' latest b& w drypoint/etchings, and is a powerful little number for the jacket cover of a book out in '08 SONNETS FOR A SIREN. This etching is only about 4 inches wide by 2 and a half high ie 10 x 7 wide cms. and the edition is a mere 25.HALF the edition of the etchings is for sale now, the rest at the publication exhibition launch of the book. This book will have what Piers considers his best monochrome etchings and drypoints.

Do enquire of Piers or watch this space.

£ 95

	Plane Avenue, Green Park (London) - with figures Piers' latest and largest black & white etching - details are in the oils for sale section too by mistake - this 32 x 22 etching shows Piers' heroes (at conservation, in the bottom left corner (Bellamy, Dennis and Evelyn) and he thinks he's caught the amazing shafts of summer light that can occur there. £ 375

Last of the swallows: October near Winchelsea

Oops!- edition 35, so 10 left... ... about 12 x 17 ins wide - Paul McCartney had a recording studio in the widmill on the horizon- this virile work is from the Nature sanctuary in the foreground. Piers really found this an ideal place to see swans, swallows etc near Rye, but nearer to Winchelsea, in October's end a few years ago. The SKY's movement was the artist's (usual) passion, so he made another plate (to use as a second and final plate plate) in soft zinc, to emboss solely the sky and thus give the clouds more impact. This is imposs to see here, by the way.

£ 235

	Shanklin shore: August sunset Curious violet/viridian mix with the fiery sun reflecting on the wet sand turned the artist on with this his LATEST oeuvre. It's medium sized at about 14 x 10 inches. £ 185

	Champion firs: Scrape Glen, Dawyck in Peeblesshire One of the largest etchings in Piers' tree book sized a good50 x 61cms across. (Note the figures to show the incredible scale of the trees in this lovely but damp part of Tweed valley upland Border country of Scotland) £ 260

Pine at Rothiemurchus

This etching Piers has 'lifted' from the Glorious Trees section of this site as he recently printed some more of its edition - for sale mainly in the Llandrindod Wells show in July & August '06 - as this print is the result of the huge oil of same subject that will be the centrepiece of that show in Wales of the original oils or watercolours from which the etchings for this mammoth book were over 15 years created. Do GO and see the show! Size of etching 12 x 9 ins across, but, as powerful, seems larger.

£ 195

	Kate reading under a Greek pine A small sepia (in fact) etching made after an Easter visit to a greek island this year. Size about 24 x 35 cms across. Can be sent by return on approval. £ 125

	Myrtle: awaiting the second this 'Romantic'etching depicts a pregnant woman and her mate under the welcome shade of a myrtle tree seen on Andros in the Cycladic islands of the Aegean. The size is about 35 cms high by 45 across - and is a popular picture. Do ask to see it 'in the flesh' on approvalas it's better than repro'd here. £ 240

Wellingtonias and Douglas' firs: dawn in Scone arb

Not totally faithfully reproduced here (imagine less golden - and hence better) this large etching is not your usual summery view of these magnificent pines and firs near Perth, but has a winter's dawn when tthe moon glows as a new sun brushes the tips of the highest pine's tops. Douglas was gardener here and, off on his one and only magnificent tree 'seed' gathering, sent back many firs from Oregon etc well over a hundred years ago So these really are Douglas' firs being the results of 'nuts' he sent back to Scone.

28 ins/71 cms high x 22ins/55 cms,this and any etching can be sent on approval with a 20% deposit.

£ 350325

	Evening: Bardale Beck, Raydale. One of the largest & most popular etchings reproduced in Piers' WENSLEYDALE book, there are about 30 copies left. Piers is ever inspired by the isolation and bosciness of this tiny valley near Wensleydale. £ 325

	October in Walden NOT IN THE TREE BOOK! This etching is one of his largest - about 43 x 70 cms - and shows the view north towards Castle Bolton in Wensleydale from a tiny dale (Walden) that runs uphill and south from West Burton. It can be found in Piers' "Wensleydale book". There are 25 etchings available. £ 295

Rainbow: Wensleydale from Cubeck

In the flesh, this is much brighter. You can ask for this to be sent on approval for a 25% deposit. (Best to tel. or Fax 01969650434/650066 is the fax).Again ed of 25, one is looking north from near Askrigg on a v bright Autumn day with leaves being stripped off usual ash and sycamore trees. Seagulls blow about and the truncated rainbows are common in Spring or Autumn in our Dale. If you would like to have all three, there is a 5% reduction on the overall price of the three.

£ 175

Towards Semerwater, Wensleydale: midnight with fig

Again 20 x 20 cms, 8 x 8ins, and in an ed. of 25, the figures were drawn by Debbie Owen-James of Skipton,a great illustrator, while Piers could concentrate on the land and sky and atmosphere. In the summer midnights are bright enough to wander about, and curlews fly around still and moonlight glints on trout's backs in becks like the one here which flows into Semerwater in Raydale - a tiny but perfetly unspoilt tiny cul-de-sac dale branching off near Bainbridge in central Wensleydale.

£ 165

Burning Rowan: Dales fantasy

This is one of three of the same sized, 8 x 8inches (20 x 20 cms) etchings of Wensleydale, and is proving the most popular. This one is a conglomerate of Addlebrough, Kilnsey Crag (ok Wharfedale) Semerwater, a farmhouse in Worton and so on. The Rowan is, with the Ash, Piers' favourite tree and a Dales' indigenous one. The farmhouse below it has a typical small neat walled garden while on the right, and even less easy to see in the dark light depicted, is Askrigg with the winding river Ure brought up to its doorsteps! Piers went for a dramatic sky, his forte they say, and in some pulls he brings out the two curlews hardly visible here at the top.

£ 195

The Swale below Kisdon: March evening

After a few weeks drawing this scene - while hoping the leaves didn't explode out - this etching budded out of the other side of Muker,about fifeteen miles west of Richmond. it is a large etching and done to capture the special orange evening sunglow light and the shade of this secretive part of this dale below Kisdon hill.

It is the same size as "March evening towards Penhill" etching, at 16.5 x 22 ins. and is also in an edition of 50.

£ 375

Wensleydale: March evening towards Penhill

A decently large colour etching 16.5" x 26" (42 x 66 cms), in an edition of 50, there are about 14 left of this well-worked 3 plate colour etching, expensive as so much (in time's worth only) hand colouring with gouache after printing.

The picture above is the same size and of the next, to the horth, dale - of Swaledale's gorge behind Kisdon. Both were drawn and painted in the sun's last rays of late afternoon in March of '03, night falling black, awkwardly, by four pm. But it never ceases to amaze Piers that these panoramas aren't painted/etched DAILY by other artists in all seasons from such heights. Funnily enough the most local farmer to this view living a mile west of Askrigg, just south of this view, has never been up here to gaze - let alone eastwards!!

£ 425

York Minster from the Close (tryptch)

Reproduced here much gloomier and than should be -and the Blake Gallery and possibly Pyrmaid Galleries in the centre of YORK have this etching on show - this is one of Piers' largest original etchings. A triptych - the central section, repro'd in his tree book, is available on its own (see above) - the idea was to show the three parts of the cathedral in the classic Japanese print tradition of 'rooming off' areas, a sort of focusing method.

Inspired by seeing a liner in dock at Southampton when he was a child decades ago, Piers wanted to create the effect of a vast man-made structure solid yet ethereal against nature's endless motion - sun, combined with a chilly October breeze and the pigeons should heighten the effect of ethereal weight surrounded movement. The main trees are superb, grand Planes. (The price is of course/as usual the UN-framed one) and is the correct one for 2007)

£ 595