HOGAN BROWN
“Lone Figures”
Hogan Brown was born in London in 1966. He comes writing, illustration, film making, and print making. London renovating vintage boats he studied Fine Art exhibited extensively in solo and group shows throughout Hogan’s inspiration comes from places he visits, a structure glimpsed, or a shadow
Using traditional techniques of drawing and painting. in what can seem like stark environments, yet a covert are mainly a glimpse of a larger environment, the side viewer is being asked what is happening in the parts of a similar path. Depictions of an observation tower, a shelter, hinterland, are all part of an implied narrative of the themes London with his
comes from an artistic family which encompassed painting,
After working on the Thames Rver, Eel Pie Island in Art at Middlesex University, London, since then he has throughout Europe, Asia, North America and South America. structure driven past, a house or hotel stayed in, a figure shadow in a room.
His works contain mysterious and anonymous figures
narrative emerges from the canvas. Interior paintings side of a bed, a single chair, again a single figure. The of the room they do not see. Exterior paintings follow shelter, a control tower, a figure, a dog, an outpost, or a themes that fascinate him. Hogan lives and works in East partner and cat.
traditionally, in oil paint on canvas, sitting at an easel, building up the paint until the point when I know it’s finished.”
“I think the selection of material and composition is the hardest part of the process, it being the key foundation for the piece. I work quite
I hope introduces an enigmatic, filmic, narrative to the viewer, which recurs in other paintings. “
“I find beauty in the concrete buildings shadows and hues, and the introduction of the single figure
“In my work I am trying to evoke a subtle, tenuous mood. Being open ended in sense and interpretation is something I strive for”
