Has Pete painted your street?

We are delighted to present Peter Brown’s first solo exhibition in Bristol. Pete first started painting the city during the pandemic and has been returning ever since, building up an impressive collection of urban landscapes.

Peter Brown is an all-weather painter of street scenes and city landscapes. Known for working directly from his subject, he is affectionately known as ‘Pete the Street’.

Peter is often associated with Bath, the city that inspired him to revisit figurative painting after his explorations into abstraction which took him from art school in Manchester in the late eighties up until 1992. While he has lived and painted for most of his adult life in Bath, his work takes him to countless locations across the UK and around the world.

“I work entirely from life using the cities and the countryside as my subjects. I start with what tickles me, and this is likely to be a certain play of the light, weather, space and everyday life. Most of my drawings and paintings take several sittings over consecutive days and in that time, I may meet police officers, dog walkers, road sweepers, residents and tourists.”

Peter is drawn to a crowd. And whilst he doesn’t consider himself to be a portrait artist, he loves to capture people going about their business – from the hustle and bustle of city life to families crowded onto a sunny beach.

Register your interest here: https://www.messums.org/exhibitions/peter-brown-bristol/

Hosted by Messums.org
at 17 Midland Road, Bristol, BS2 0JT

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