Nicholas de Lacy Brown

The artist

Gallery Houses of Art Marbella is pleased to announce its upcoming exhibition featuring the imaginary and surrealistic works of Nicholas de Lacy Brown, the winner of the Young Artists Contest 2009. The show will open on the 5th of November and continue until the 2nd of December 2009.

Nicholas de Lacy Brown (Great Britain 1983)
“A fresh and vivacious new face of the British contemporary art scene”

Nicholas de Lacy Brown was the winner of the Young Artist Contest 2009 at the Festival Internacional de Arte Marbella. This contest was organized by Houses of Art Marbella. His painting ‘’Nicholas in the Renaissance” got more than 60% percent of the public votes and promising criticisms of
a professional jury during the Festival Internacional de Arte Marbella (FIAM).

Nicholas grew up in London and lived for 9 years in Marbella, he visits Marbella regular to paint and to visit his family.
In 2002 at the age of 19, Nicholas instigated a period of work which came to reflect the enhancement and maturity of his mind in a new, older and more urbanised environment, as well as the colourful and active social life to which he was part of.
Encouraged by his first significant taste of public artistic success, Nicholas went on to develop a comprehensive and eclectic collection. As the circumstances in his own life began to change, sometimes dramatically, his canvases began to reflect a more subdued and reflective eye, often representing the most sensitive and heart-wrenching of topics, albeit under the guise of his trademark use of bold imagery and vivacious colour.

Please come, see and experience the imaginary and surrealistic paintings of Nicholas de Lacy Brown at Gallery Houses of Art Marbella, Marbella Club Hotel from the 5th of November until the 2nd of December.

CV Nicholas de Lacy Brown (Great Britain 1983)

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

1994 / Paintings of Shakespeare / Worthing Library Gallery, Worthing – England
1994 / Paintings of Shakespeare / Brighton Museum and Library - England
2000 / Le Paris Formidable / Rivoli Gallery, England
2006 / Between me and my Reflection/| Rivoli Gallery, England
2008 /Sebastian’s Arrows: Story of an Artist as a Young Man, London
2008 / Metamorphosis: Paris, Parody, Paparazzi | Eaton Terrace Gallery, London
2009 /
Group exhibitions

2004 / HYPE (Hewitt Packard) exhibition, Brick Lane LONDON
2008 / Opening exhibition of the Galerie Référence, Rue de Londres, PARIS
2009 / Référence Gallery, Grand Street, Soho NEW YORK
2009 / Winner of the Young Artists Contest at the FIAM,

MARBELLA

Although he never received any formal artistic training, Nicholas showed artistic promise from an early age. Painting a scene from each of Shakespeare’s 37 plays at the age of 13, Nicholas received his first exposure to local press and had his work publicly displayed across Sussex. Thereafter, while following a solely academic line at school, Nicholas continued to paint enthusiastically in his spare time, completing during his teenage years a collection of reflections on war, which were later displayed at Worthing Town Hall in commemoration of Remembrance Day, and later the considerable Le Paris Formidable canvas (2000, acrylic on canvas), generally regarded as the instigator of the Artist’s first serious attempt to execute a career in art.

Leaving Sussex for London in 2002 at the age of 19, Nicholas instigated a period of work which came to reflect the enhancement and maturity of his mind in a new, older and more urbanized environment, as well as the colorful and active social life to which he was party.

Encouraged by his first significant taste of public artistic success, Nicholas went on to develop a comprehensive and eclectic collection which reflects his love for an imaginary and surrealistic world which take its inspirations by the real life making a very intriguing mixtures between reality and fantasy which make the work of Nicholas very unique and original, without any risk of getting confused among all the happenings on the world art scene.

As the circumstances in his own life began to change, sometimes dramatically, his canvases began to reflect a more subdued and reflective eye, often representing the most sensitive and heart-wrenching of topics, albeit under the guise of his trademark use of bold imagery and vivacious colours. From a collection brightened with a bold, entertaining romp through the agonies and ecstasies of heartbreak, adolescence and the drastic results of a serious accident sustained to his leg in the spring of 2008, Nicholas’ recent works also extend to the delicate and successful handling of landscapes, from the moody and brooding Cityscapes to the whimsical and intoxicating Venice collection.

Nicholas has enjoyed the successful launch of his work in London, with his first solo London show opening to critical acclaim in the prestigious Arndean Gallery in May 2008. This was followed shortly after by a solo opening gala exhibition in Belgravia’s new exhibition space, the Eaton Terrace Gallery. Nicholas is pleased to be taking his work further ahead, having been invited to exhibit in Paris in December 2008 and New York in April 2009, proudly representing, as he does so, a fresh and vivacious new face of the British contemporary art scene abroad.

For further information, photos or an interview with the artist, please contact the gallery.