Piers Brown - Artist, Poet, Musician.

Paintings for Sale

Some very few of Piers Browne's oils can be seen in galleries since most are sold at his One-man exhibitions.
There are a few oils on show here & they give sizes and prices. Piers can deliver or have delivered oils for personal perusal anywhere in the UK, or visit him, or contact one of the galleries listed in the ETCHINGS FOR SALE section.

Yorkshire
PIERS BROWNE Heugh, Nappa Scar Askrigg North Leyburn North Yorkshire DL8 3JY Phone: (01969) 650 434 Email: piersbrowne@heugh-wensleydale.freeserve.co.uk		The Blake Gallery 18 Blake Street YORK YO1 8QH Tel: 01904 733666 Fax: 01904 733730 Email: info@blakegallery.com Website: www.blakegallery.com
International & UK Agent: CHRIS ANDREW Email: chattochris@aol.com Tel: 07712189979
London
The New Grafton Gallery 49 Church Road Barnes London SW13 9HH 020 8748 8850 www.newgrafton.com art@newgrafton.com Piers' 15 year project THE GLORIOUS TREES OF GREAT BRITAIN book (over 150 etchings therein) is available exclusively in London, signed from here and Sotherans in Sackville street, Piccadilly. There is a 10 discount to Ł25 for this TREES book - and Piers' WENSLEYDALE book is also available signed and at both locations.

THE PAINTINGS
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It is best to see Piers new works at galleries or at his home – prior appointment essential.

	Mr Richard Hall & Guinness A recent commission set in Shropshire with a distant view of the Wrekin, Piers' great patron stands with his Peke in a 'silo' field in July this year, and is recorded in a four foot wide canvas. Do ask piers for the price of such commissions £ 000000

	Swallows: Addlebrough on a cool July night The only company the artist had was the swallows till they turned in, this fresh oil is, in its simple but complimentary frame, 28 high x 30 inches across. It was the fourth sky the artist crashed down onto the canvas as the night drew on, and the gilded pale blues were an inspiration among the moroser, violenter clouds £ 1750

	lovers in a hayfield: evening, Wensleydale Penhill really does glow lke this near the end of a scorching July day in Wensleydale, and this is what prompted Piers to set his easel up (and let his imagination race) one night. It is wonderfully framed by Christina Leder and about 28 inches x 24 high. £ 1450

	Filey beach: Spring evening On show in Ripon Cathedral from 24 Aug (Preview) till 16th Sept, this fresh Oil was painted mid evening this glorious May, the breasts of the seagulls bright orange, the cloud reflections in the damp shoreline, the swathe of sunlight on this long beach and the palest blue-yellow of the lower sky all conspire to a bright, beautiful sight. £ 1500

Winter snow, the Fortingall Yew - with eagle

Now hanging in the Blake Gallery in York, this oil was re-worked in May 07 to add the falling snow which time had prevented the artist applying- ! - the price has missed the 'o' for ages - should be Ł1850 but there it is ... and the eagle WAS there. The great Yew was vandalised for centuries by souvenir hunters who made the pilgrimage to Glen Lyon to hack off branch ends as this was such an old tree - and this after centuries of local celts etc hacking it about for bow and arrow production. Since some olive trees a touch further south, say in Sicily, have been dated as over 10,000 years old, this may be only the northern p[art of Europe's oldest tree. 18 x 26 inches in its glorious Christina Leder frame, it is on offer for this low price thus framed.

£ 950

The Golden Wave: Southend, Argyll

Now hanging in the Blake Gallery in York, sleet showers, hail, icy wind made for exciting wave scenery when the sunset rays caught them. We felt sorry for the seals who, in such icy times, take to the warmer water to heat up - water that is just above 0 degrees! (The seal colony is large here at Southend, and a wary lot too.) Soon to be in a gorgeous Christina Leder frame... this oil will bring fresh air and a raw panache/flamboyance to any wall.If interested, Piers may donate you the frame....

£ Ł1450

Towards the Paps of Jura from Colonsay

Painted very recently and to be seen at The new grafton Gallery from July 31st this year for a month or so, it was painted in late March when the light was intense and sparkling. This sketch (for a much larger Oil) was as ever done on the spot - after much lugging of painting easel etc up the rocks in southern Colonsay. Piers then exulted in using the palette knife - for water, and his fingers - for sand, while a brush scumbled among the vegetation for that less shiny texture. this is truly the best time of year in Scotland: warming, crystal clear, and often clear blue skies in these Hebridean islands. Over the mainland there seems always cloud, which makes this scene extra sparkling. Double click on the painting to see the image larger. It is, however, a sketch done over a few mornings and only 20 x 24, but still intact and 'holding' all the intricate parts together.

£ 1850

Sunset over The Strand: Colonsay

To be seen first at The new Grafton Gallery in s w London from July 31, this was their first really orange sun of 2007 streaking over the receding shallow waters at Colonsay's beautiful southernmost end, between it and tiny Oronsay. The paint was dashed down on the spot and left untouched being complete in itself, like any good unadulterated fiery sun set.

£ 1450

Kiloran Bay: tide receding on Colonsay

To be seen at The New Grafton Gallery in barnes, sw london from July 31st ...Painted this March,this 20 x 24 inch Oil 'sketch' simply exudes light. The complimentary colours of ochre and blue vie with each other. Two dog walkers pull the eye to the dune's edge. Soon to be in a lovely Christina Leder frame, this oil has no pretentions: it delights in sunlight.

£ 1750

	Dawn: Canary Wharf, London Sized 4 x 3 feet high, the Hemel Hempstead oil-fire's smoke is heading for town - it did last year, though few Londoners were phased -and THIS artist was inspired! Turner was the inspiration, though it's doubtful if he applied paint so thickly or, courtesy of the Daily Mail, was lucky to receive an aerial view! Piers rates this as a major work. £ 5,000

Autumn morning, Wensleydale: towards Hawes

In its frame, the oil is but 14 inches high x 26. Piers planted this thorn tree precisely for its late Autumn colour - then finally painted it in Nov '06! interestingly enough, its actual thorns only go up 4 foot of the stems/trunk before disappearing, simply because it knows (and has thus adapted itself) that sheep rarely stand on their back legs to graze any higher. It is never easy to capture this sort of luminosity adequately. Another few minutes on, and the light would've be too bland, less horizontal, and the landsacpe too dulled to a uniform series of green greys. The excellent frame is by the lovely Christina Leder of Parsons Green, London, the only 'oil' framer the artist frequents for his better works.

£ 1250

Moon rising over Spring floods: Wensleydale

Now back in Piers' store, this oil is one of his favourites being done on the spot with only the birds, a greylag goose and curlew as seen here, for company. About 20 x 24 inches in a superb Leder frame all who've seen this 'in the flesh' remark on its glowing, jewel-like colours - and nothing was manipulated to enhance simple observation dashed down - manically. It may well be in Ripon Cathedrail in the huge art show there from 24 Aug till Sept 17

£ 1150

	May evening: Wensleydale with Ladyhill A medium sized Oil 22 x 28 inches in its frame done this year on the spot, it is to be one of 6 oils hopefully all on show in Ripon Cathedral for just under a month from Aug 24th soon. Again the birdlife here is bountiful - never a dull moment with sandmartins, oyster catchers, duck and plovers flying around till late. £ 1450

	Moonrise and sunset, Wensleydale Here's yet another moon in another Dales oil - but one that shows the artist's "heart" completely. Only in African evenings has he seen such a luminous light as September evenings can give. This photo shows the beautiful handmade Christina Leder frame which so compliments the oil, even enhances it,this 21 x 17 inch image. £ 1750

	Spring sunset light over Wensleydale This, at least to the artist and his patrons who have just bought it, is a truly successful LARGE oil, in a simple, elegant frame. It will be one of a pair of Wensleydale oils. It took Piers ages to work out the rythms and the light effect which WAS there. The sky was painted and repainted a few time. £ just SOLD

Scorching July evening: towards Penhill, Wensleyda

This 16 x 24 inch oil was painted from above 1000 feet in the heart of Wensleydale, the glorious colours radiating what is last summer's heatwave. Hence, in the distance, the almost orange-burnt hayfields. The artist's shadow is just visible on the wall, while the swallows chased the flies above. Piers rates this as a successful work as it captures the raw even brash glowing evening colours during a Dales' heatwave NOT adequately portrayed here. (Do tell 01904 733666 Blake Gallery to see it?).

£ 1450

Willow leaves on the Stour nr Flatford Mill

Half a mile upstream from the immortal Willy Lotts house at Flatford mill in south Suffolk, the June midday heat was so intense that dried willow leaves, burnt orange, were discarding and floating downstream at a stately pace, Piers was entranced by the plethora of fluorescent ultramarine-bodied dragonflies, but more so by this small willow's (and bulbous cumulous clouds)reflections in the river, itself ruffled slightly by a welcome breeze. Piers felt Constable's landscape had scarcely changed, tho' there were more visitors than C's day in row boats and more bargees. (The rowing boats were good for the artist in firming up exactly what he wished to capture since their ripples were aggravating in the extreme)

£ 1750

	Sunrise over the Stour's exit to sea at Shingle St £ sold

The sea at Scarborough: scorching June.

This is Piers at his 'en plein air' best, and this will be seen in Ripon Cathedral from Aug 24 for almost a month, this year. The size is, unframed, 22 x 18 inches high, but do buy in the lovely frame which is gratis as it were. This type of oil is NOT 'slick': Piers works and re-works the oils for hours on the spot to capture the movement of sky or sea and preferably both allied - and accurately. As said, like The Bass Rock, it will be on show at the end of August in Ripon Cathedral in the Great North Art Show.

£ 1750

	Venice from the Campanile: May £ Just sold at Blake Gallery

Sunset: the Bay of Biscay

Painted on the spot at Soustons Plage n of Biarritz in great haste in July, this quite large oil - 24 x 29 inches in its super frame - was the starter for such seascapes made on the sea's MOST front point. It is offered for sale as paintings coming out of the artist's ears at present, but he genuinely feels sorry to lose it if sold. It is not shown off at all well here on this site, but is in fact truly radiant.

£ 2250

Return of the Sand-martins: with Penhill

THIS SURELY IS PIERS' MASTERPIECE and will be the only oil on show, with about 12 of Piers' best HUGEST etchings, at THE NATIONAL PARKS CENTRE in BAINBRIDGE, Wensleydale (Mon - Fri office hours) NOW!! - till END APRIL. Being on the grand scale, yet detailed, vivacious and accurate to Wensleydale's light, shapes and special colours,the oil was painted last Easter after five preliminary oil sketches, this 6 foot wide x 4 high painting sums up approaching Spring in the heart of this glorious River Ure floodplain near Aysgarth. The weather, clouds etc., dominate but it is the many different species of birdlife flying about above this floodwater which were the raison d'etre. Plovers on the right are balanced by the still white-marked Curlews higher and opposite; a brace of Oyster catchers, a heron (which was seen and exactly there!), blackheaded gulls and of course the subject matter, the mass of twittering sand martins which love the Ure's steep, sandy banks. The cool, wintery northerly wind bringing the low stratus sweep of violet cloud shows the end of Winter as the blue seems to push them away. The price may seem high but it includes a good frame that also adds light to this oil.

£ 10,000

	London Flooded: December evening This oil, about 24 inches across and in a really lovely C Leder (London) frame, was the highlight of PB's recent London Show at Lennox Gdns, SW1 where it sold. Piers was the last artist allowed, for security reasons, to ascend to the top of Millbank Tower. He is making a larger version of it soon - on commission. £ sold

	The Cevennes: France in August A large - about 45 inch wide - canvas, this will always be a centrepiece of any PB show - especially in France. The artist is proud of this large, airy oil which depicts the countryside R L Stevenson walked that donkey in and wrote that little masterpiece Travels with a donkey. £ 3450

The Bass Rock from North Berwick: September

An oil made on the spot in almost tropical September weather - the odd squall came and went too, this oil is manageable at 18 x 24 inches, and in a superb frame. The prices of all the OILS on this site INCLUDE the frame. This oil is soon to be seen in Ripon Cathedral in the Great north Art Show... from the 24th Aug (Preview) for a week at least.

£ 1750

	September afternoon towards Hawes, Wensleydale £ sold

Sunset over Cardigan Bay: August

To capture this was a monstrous task painting almost a white-out, glaring sunset over equally glistening water.

Painted on the spot on board size about 20" high x 24" across, it is poss one of Piers' best impasto plein-air oils of late and he thinks does indeed trap the light.In a particularly beautiful Christina Leder handpainted frame, it's next outing is at the Blake gallery in centre of York from preview evening Fri October 6th for a month.

£ just sold at Blake Gallery

WENSLEDALE book

Piers told everyone that it'd sold out in 2003 BUT he found (or rather his son did) 200 more copies on a shelf over his bed behind a large curtain on Aug 20 2005!! SO these pristine copies have been delivered to some local galleries but he has kept the majority at his home ready to sign and send off.

The price is Ł12.50 ie HALF PRICE. ADD Ł6 FOR P&P IF DEALING DIRECT FROM PIERS. THE Blake Gallery in York is great in always hav copies as does Stratus Books in Ripon N Yorks.In LONDON, Sotherans in Sackville St(Piccadilly) and the New Grafton Gallery in the heart of Barnes' beautiful leafy open area (49 Church Road) ALWAYS have SIGNED copies and are unique in london so doing.

£ 12.50

	Kings College Chapel (Cambridge): September after This oil, made on the spot in late September, seemed to have been done for the delight of hundreds of tourists gazing at its conception behind the artist's back! This photo of it really does not show it off at all well. The price includes its frame - for a quick sale, the price being low. £ 750

	September: sunlight on sea near Whitby This is at present in PB's home and available from this www site. Sized 17 x 24 (25 x 30 in a lovely Christina Leder of London frame), this oil is Piers' wife's favourite - but too many pictures at home! £ 1900

The Sea off Iona: September

Oil done on spot in best few days of year - amazing! - cloudless sky and gentle cooling breeze - ideal for climbing up Dun Bhuirg "The Hill of the Fort" and painting. OK the hill is but 100 foot high, but it's steep! The bay, largest on island, faces west and ocean 'til America, is called "The Bay at the back of the Ocean" (Camus Cul an t-Saimh) The oil then shows a glistening, just off-calm sea, and is 22 x 27 inches wide. Price includes frame

£ 1750

Cover of PIERS' trees BOOK

This is the cover of Piers' 'Magnus Opus' of his five books -THE GLORIOUS TREES OF GREAT BRITAIN, a work which took him 15 years to make - the type taking almost as long as the 150 or so original etchings. In the Tree Catalogue section back on my Home Page (and note there are TWO pages to browse through), there are a number of oils - which you would guess were oils simply from their much higher price. So do look there too for oils though most have sold by now. THE BOOK IS NOW Ł25, a saving of Ł10. Piers will sign and also dedicate on the title page what you wish. Please Send Ł32 (P&P costs him Ł7 - it's a heavy tome!) and he'll post it straight to you and will only cash the cheque when he hears you have it and approve. (Click on icon to see it better) SOTHERANS in Sackville St (Piccadilly, London) and The new Grafton Gallery near the Round Pond in the centre of leafy Barnes each vae copies of thie book (and Piers' WENSLEYDALE too) for you to see in the flesh.

£ 25

Screwing the Earth (1): TheGlastonbury Thorn

About 3 foot square, this collage oil is a powerful statement about the beauty and the dross we dump and which abounds in pretty well all of our countryside especially near towns like near the Vale of Avalon/Glastonbury. Joseph of Arithamea planted his walking stick in the ground after leaving Christ crucified in Jerusalem, and with his 'disciples' he was whacked out by the time he got here. Shouting "We're all weary" Joseph thrust his stick into this hillside and, being made of what's called a Mid-eastern Thorn (and luckily being not frozen ground!), it 'took' and,having sprung up, it flowers twice a year. I've depicted a descendant one still on "Wearyall Hill". Flowering twice a year, a present is still made to our Queen annualy at Easter of some blossom. A new supermarket was being constructed behind Piers as he drew and the festival of litter was apparently being celebrated all over the hillside; the whole picture is oil painted + rubbish collaged on a bed of rosy wallpaper. The next (Screwing Life number 2) is of the Humber Estuary and the third on Iona. All will show what havoc can be wrought on even sacred places. The oils are handled tenderly throughout this series.

£ 1995

	Strawberry Tree, Killarney (Oil 5feet high!)( £ just sold