David Iain Brown
London, United Kingdom
Emerging artist David Iain Brown, lives in Glasgow. Since completing his Master’s Degree in Fine Art at Gray's School of Art in Aberdeen 2018, Brown has exhibited internationally from France to Dusseldorf.
Brown started as a print maker, depicting colourful illustrations of mundane objects from his surrounding within the daily life, but gradually evolved to painting and developed a new language of abstraction. While experimenting with different textures, colours and shapes, the artist tries to lose control over the work, resulting in a unique outcome. David lain Brown starts from one element and progresses freely with many layers and a variety of paint media, not only he adds materials to the canvas, in some areas Brown deconstructs his own work to give more space to the underlying structures. Every layer is as important as the last layer since it leaves a trail of narrative through the creation process. Building up a depth of layers and textures Brown’s work aims to tempt the view in, to look closer at the work.
Brown pushes the boundaries of his chosen materials, as a printmaker he approaches painting as if it was a print, reusing materials from the studio cutting, and assembling pieces of old rags to old work that gets cut up and repurposed. This confidence to destroy is part of Brown’s creative process, he looks and starts a work as if it were a puzzle. A puzzle that hasn’t been created or solved yet.
More than ever the artist is guided by his immediate surroundings, Brown’s paintings are a glimpse of memories like a diary entry, each painting is a freeze frame of how the artist felt in that moment. Days, weeks and months or diary entries which become a final painting.