Michael Brogan

I am a recently retired Art teacher and have been painting more seriously since 2005, although I originally trained as a potter. My original idea as a young foundation student was to train as a painter, but I got involved with clay and it took me in a different direction. I was Director of Specialism in a large school, which was nationally recognised for the arts. I have had numerous and successful exhibitions of my studio ceramics over many years. I have also had several exhibitions of my paintings at local art galleries in the NE and in Cumbria and I am currently working on a range of landscape paintings, which I am endeavouring to submit to on-line galleries and local galleries, such as the Biscuit Factory in Newcastle. I have worked with many well known artists over my career, such as Nahem Shoa and the internationally renowned Takeshi Yasuda. I hope to establish a higher profile and extend my painting vocabulary through sights such as Saatchi Art. I live in NE England and I am inspired by local and rural landscape and the disappearing industrial landscape of northern England. I also enjoy travel and have visited Italy many times, which is for me, a perfect place to be inspired.

I was educated at a Catholic Secondary School and then completed a Foundation course at the then Hartlepool Art College. I trained in studio ceramics for three years at Staffordshire University under Derek Emms, who was a student of Bernard Leach in the 1950s. I was also taught painting by Stephen Crowther ARCA in Hartlepool, who was a student of Carel Weight. I did my PGCE at Leeds University and then embarked on my teaching career.