Alistair Brown

My creative practice now primarily involves the creation of emotionally charged wall art. I am familiar with several creative disciplines and will incorporate one or a variety of mediums dependent upon the concept. When my father got ill, it was difficult for me to interpret the visual decline of my dad and my emotional state. I had to find a new visual language for me one which would allow me to express thoughts, feelings and emotions. It wasn't until I was scattering his ashes that I saw a path open for me. As his ashes entered the dark waters, I was struck by their poetic majesty as the currents danced and pulled at his ashes in a random freeform abstraction. These ash forms haunted me in my grief and loss for a long time afterwards. I had to find a way to preserve and express the beauty and the sadness. After a year of research, I settled on epoxy resin with paints and inks.
This has several advantages:
1. It took me away from the more conceptual side of my work.
2. Its very nature allows for a more freeform approach to creative expression.
3. I was learning a new technique and therefore broadening my creative lexicon.
4. It allowed for the creation of sellable artworks, rather than the limited and expensive conceptual ...

2004 Scottish Screen-College of Commerce Business Skills for Media Production
1997-99 Kingsway College BTEC Multimedia Design and VR.
1984-88 Central St. Martins School of Art B.A(Hons)
Fine Art, Upper Second.

2020: Paisley Art Institute Group Show Paisley
(Covid-19 restrictions online exhibition only)
2019: Paisley Art Institute Group Show Paisley

1990: Shoplift Project Lewisham, Arts Festival
Street exhibition on public sites parodying modern consumer advertising.
1989: Fort33 International group show. Antwerp, Belgium