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26th January - 24th February 2007
William Brown was born in Toronto, Canada in 1953. He is a prolific painter and printmaker whose work is informed by poetry, literature and travel. He exhibits widely in Britain and overseas with shows in France, Belgium, Germany and the Czech Republic. Recent projects have involved sojourns in Galicia, Southern Morocco and the Canadian North. He lives in Bridgend and works in the Llynfi Valley in South Wales. William Brown's work is in many Public and Private Collections worldwide.
I could begin by stating that I was raised (very Kipling) by bears or wolves but that wouldn't be the whole truth. In fact, I was born of Scots parents in Toronto, 50-odd years ago. Story telling and listening both were inculcated early and I siezed on stories, myths, legends, folk customs. Working, as I do these days in Llynfi Valley, I am drawn (and painting and printmaking) to various peculiar local themes. Travel, books, poetry inspire me and I readily associate with writers and poets. I hope that my colours and fooling around with ideas is balanced, tempered by a more serious bent and enable me to reshape, retell, adjust some of the stories told at the back of the cave- the cranium. A defining trait of human nature is, I believe, the imagination- at once the alleviation of tedium, the bringing of a sense of fun and maybe, just maybe, illumination.'
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