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Bryce has had eight solo exhibitions.
His work is in private collections in New Zealand, Europe and the USA including the John Deere art collection in Moline, Illinois.
Born in Auckland in 1971, Bryce grew up in the lush Northland surrounds of Whangarei. He began to take art seriously in the mid 90s, with the outstanding beauty of the Northland area providing him with a major source of inspiration.
High passion for art became the main drive for a 12-country world tour between 1997-2000 taking in all the major European galleries. Again, nature and the people he observed and met in his travels provided him with ideas and artistic stimulation.
On his distinctive figurative style, Bryce says “I like to explore human emotion and activity through
my paintings. I’m always drawn to large scale boldness and always accentuate form as well as
the division and entwinement of positive/negative space. The use of the human form in my work
is vital and couldn’t imagine completing a painting without the use of the figure. My paintings are
created to accentuate the postive aspects of life and to transport the viewer to a place of calm,
where they can delight in the small things that pertain to our viseral rather than material natures.”
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Contact Bryce at
info@brycebrownart.com
Artist's Statement
As a young country, New Zealand is developing rapidly with so many changes in the last one hundred years, we sometimes struggle to keep up. It's diversity is as great as the figures that dwell upon it. We have a lot of different cultures that are influencing the face of our nation, some of these going back one hundred and thirty years such as the Europeans, the Chinese gold miners of Otago and the Dalmation wine makers and even further back, the Maori migrated from Polynesia in canoes about the 9th century to 13th century AD.
I have aimed to capture the people and surroundings of the New Zealand landscape, reflecting on my fascination with the parallels between the European Modernist movements and the settlers of this country in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. This Modernist influence mixed with New Zealand culture is evident in my most recent figurative paintings and gives them a truely unique, international flavour.
Visitor and Contact information
Bryce has some new work as well as a lot of older paintings in his studio over summer. Whether you are local, or a visitor to New Zealand's Bay of Plenty, you welcome to his Mt Maunganui Studio, just phone to make a time
Click here to view the location map to my studio and home.
Phone +64 7 5750123
e mail info@brycebrownart.com
To find out more on buying Bryce's paintings click here.
Technical information
My work is all acrylic painted on museum quality 10 oz. Cotton duck. I finish the paintings with an isolation coat (acrylic gel) which keeps it separate from the solvent based varnish that I then apply. This gives a great finish which is highly UV resistant, helps eliminate scuffing and can be removed (back to the isolation coat) for future restoration. All of the paintings are on a 3 cm deep frame with the paint continuing around the edges.
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Chronological summary of significant events in art career.
1997 Embarks on International travel, studying the works of the Masters in the Galleries and Museums of Europe. Discovers a passion for and ability to paint.
1999 First solo exhibition - Whangarei.
2000 Travels to Turkey - gains inspiration and begins new body of work.
2004 Attends studies in Graphic Design - Tauranga.
2005 Becomes a full time artist - 3 exhibitions this year sells work to The John Deere International Art Collection as well as other international collectors.
2006 Continues to research and paint historical New Zealand themes - figures in our landscapes and environment as well as other international themes.
2006 Chosen to be published in the popular book 'New Zealand's Favourite Artists'
2007 Chosen for the esteemed Vero Calender and published alongside artists such as Don Binney, Ralph Hotere, Rita Angus and Colin McCahon.
Lives currently in Mount Maunganui New Zealand.
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Ph +647 575 0123
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