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Little is known about the artist Eric Brown who died in 1955. However, with an exhibition of his pictures held by Darnley Fine Art in London in June 2025, his profile is now rising. The exhibition was accompanied by an excellent catalogue titled ‘Country Lanes and the Plains: Eric Brown’s Landscapes of Interwar Salisbury’. In this catalogue Brown is referred to as ‘an undeniable unsung hero of 20th Century landscape painting…’.
Brown focused on painting landscapes solely of Salisbury Plain and the surrounding area. He was born in Salisbury and lived there all of his life. His paintings have a poetic, peaceful quality in their soft complementary tones. Given that Brown served in the army during the First World War and likely witnessed horror and destruction, it is easy to see why he returned to the unspoiled open landscape of the Plain. He fits into the post-war ‘Return to Order’ movement along with artists such as Paul Nash, who rejected the chaos and abstraction of the pre-war avant-garde and moved towards stillness and order in their landscapes, while trying to capture the innate ‘spirit of place’.
Medium: Oil on board
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Size: 23 X 29cm