Jonathon Brown

As one writer has put it, Jonathon Brown's work takes line for a dance - and colour for a song.  

Much of his painting takes its strength from an adventure of design in the underlying draughtsmanship; this is especially true of RoadMovies, work that formed the focus of a major exhibition in the summer of 2002 at the Talbot Rice Gallery in the University of Edinburgh, and whose underlying principal - to evoke our passage through landscape rather than just to give 'views' - drives his work still.

Bus Route 74, Nice

This notion of passage was at first concentrated on the idea of driving through landscape in a car but has expanded to include walking or even the experience of a given journey by train - how we see, how we sense where we are & where we're going.  And in an increasing portfolio of portrait drawings shows how this notion of passage is inspiring a certain freedom of likeness that seeks to suggest the sitter's way of moving.