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Latest News:

13/5/13: The Beacon update (click here)

 

After months of preparations I am finally moving into new larger studios. Updates will be posted on The Beacon

 

7 NEW signed limited edition prints now available in the online print shop. CLICK HERE to see them.

 

A big thank you to all who have helped me get halfway to my £1000 fundraising target for Breakthrough Breast Cancer. Donations can be made at www.justgiving.com/MarcBrownSeaChronicle2012 

I was born in Southwold in 1968, on the northern edge of town that borders Easton Marshes, just a short walk from the sea.

I was a foreman brick-maker at a traditional brickworks at South Cove for 3 years before attending Lowestoft Art School (1990-92) and Manchester Metropolitan University (1992-95). After graduating in 1995 I began to produce drawings and paintings in mixed media for exhibiting. I continued the theme of my Degree Show which was a portrayal of the East Anglian coastline, including parts of my family history and its relationship with the sea through several generations. In 2003 I gave up my part-time post at Lowestoft College to further my painting career.

Working in mixed media my current paintings are a direct response to my interest in unusual compositions and viewpoints and the placement of sometimes ordinary objects and buildings within them. I often explore the juxtaposition of large open skies with strands of finely detailed horizons which epitomizes the ancient and ever changing East Anglian landscape of sea and salt-marsh.