Jessica Brown is willing to accept commissions
I’m an abstract painter working from my studio in Warwickshire, creating paintings which I hope are joyful, layered and evocative.
I often include mixed media elements in my paintings to build up layers of marks and texture, obscuring and revealing, to create a beautiful, multi-layered surface. Inspiration for my paintings comes from many sources, but
the idea of travelling and connecting underpins many of my paintings. Whether that be travelling across the world, wandering the streets of Paris, or discovering hidden gems in the local neighbourhood. It’s the connections made along the way – whether to people or places – that makes the journey so interesting.
I've loved art and painting from a young age. However, after a detour which involved obtaining a BA Hons degree in German from Manchester University, I returned to my true passion of painting, when I enrolled as a mature student of Fine Art at Birmingham City University. After leaving art college I had nearly a decade of success, selling my work through galleries in the West Midlands, Yorkshire and elsewhere, taking part in numerous solo and joint exhibitions. During this period I sold more than 100 paintings through the galleries that represented me.
Subsequently, my path took another detour, into the office environment, and I worked for several years in Communications at the Civil Service handling the media for VIP visits, including Royalty and Government Ministers. It was a very different career from painting, but so much of what I learned, around communication and creating connections, feeds into my art today. For the last few years, I’m so happy to be in a position to fully focus on my painting again being selected for the Saatchi Other Art Fair, and showing through several local galleries.
2019
Kunsthuis Gallery, Crayke, Yorkshire, 6 April – 27 October.
2018
Royal Birmingham Society of Arts (RBSA) Open Exhibition
2017
Selected for The Other Art Fair, Bristol
Foster Frame Art Gallery, Stratford-upon-Avon
Contemporary art fair: Discover Gather Give, Stratford-upon-Avon
Parkview Gallery, Birmingham
2016
Parkview Gallery, Birmingham
Deasil Gallery, Leamington Spa.
2007
Burlington Hotel
2006
Taylor Pick Gallery, Beverley, Yorkshire
2005
Ombersley Gallery, Worcestershire
Taylor Pick Gallery, Beverley, Yorkshire
2004
Ombersley Gallery, Worcestershire
2003
Royal Birmingham Society of Artists
Taylor Pick Gallery, Beverley, Yorkshire
Ombersley Gallery, Worcestershire
Parkview Gallery, Birmingham
Sold work through an art dealer, Birmingham
2002
Parkview Gallery, Birmingham
Ombersley Gallery, Worcestershire
2001
Parkview Gallery, Birmingham
Ombersley Gallery, Worcestershire
2000
Number 9 The Gallery, Birmingham
Ombersley Gallery, Worcestershire
Parkview Gallery, Birmingham
1999
Ombersley Gallery, Worcestershire
Parkview Gallery, Birmingham
1998
Parkview Gallery, Birmingham
Commissions
2007: 3 individual commissions undertaken.
Collections:
Work in various private collections in Yorkshire, Birmingham, London and elsewhere.
Awards:
2000
Won ‘Highly commended’ award from the Daily Express for the most promising new artist for the year.
Education
Studied Fine Art at Birmingham City University, and Warwickshire College.
