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La Route des Violettes – exhibition and book launch by PIERS BROWNE

MEET the artist PIERS BROWNE 12 noon Sat October 7th  2017

Wensleydale artist, printmaker, poet and author Piers Browne invites you to join hm athis BOOK SIGNING and  exhibition which will feature oil paintings of the Yorkshire Dales and etchings that illustrate his novella ‘La Route des Violettes’. The book itself is being launched in York at this event

Piers, though a  Shropshire-born lad, acquired a love of drawing and painting in early childhood scooter -ing about in those Constable-like lanes (and off to paint the fields and hills)  of Shropshire. After formal art training, he travelled alone  and painted (and adventured!) extensively in Europe and for a month central Africa, before settling in his adopted, equally landlocked  North Yorkshire in 1975:  Wensleydale, especially from a height affords amazing panoramic vistas,  a major influence upon Piers’ life and work.

He is a ardent colourist and this combination for capturing light with free brushwork’s or palette knife’s panache has produced many exceptional oils and etchings, some regularly hung at the R A Summer show.   Olive tree and Seascape works   have recently  gained him much recognition making the the landlocking broken!

Most recent are paintings and etchings of south Provence  for the launch  by Sept 8th 2017 of LA ROUTE DES VIOLETTES,  which may be mass published, but if accepted, and even (later) handmade after publication for those  Collectors who buy for many thousands of pounds Piers’ large handmade books. Piers has made 3 so far and they take, in between painting and even writing poetry,  a good 3 or 4 years each to construct – though  our Oxford’s Bodleian and Cambridge Uni libraries each asked to buy a copy each. They are pretty unique in the world at present, being traditional tho’ visionary etchings (even Samuel Palmerian landscape or seascape, it is said)  with his own poems – he calls them verses! – handset type by hand and Eye usually in London.

Yorkshire artist Piers Browne has always held a fascination for the French region of Provence with its olive trees, lavender, vineyards, its beautiful light and rocky herbal landscapes, and – a rarity even in France – its violet fields.
In his eighth book, a novella entitled La Route des Violettes, Browne has created a love story set in the area of Tourrettes-sur-Loup shouldering the Alpes Maritime in south eastern Provence. In it two teenagers meet and fall madly in love – he English, she the daughter of a local violet farmer. The pair part and then reunite over a decade later when they meet again as adults. In the meantime both have faced unhappiness and a lack of fulfilment. Browne’s story weaves the enchanting landscape into a tale of loss, hope and reconciliation, a story of twists and turns that proves that first love truly never dies.
Piers Browne has meticulously illustrated his book with a series of 26 radiantly coloured original etchings that truly capture the flavour of both the place and his story. Published by Otley printers and bookbinders Smiths Settle in a beautifully printed edition of 350, there will also be a special edition of just six books, boxed with an embossed jacket and containing 25 etchings with a loose etching inside the cover.
La Route des Violettes will be launched at York’s Pyramid Gallery in the shadow of the Minster on September 8th open every day until October 18th.
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    Ripening Sun etching by Piers Browne

  • Stalled in the Lane, donkey, etching by Piers Browne

    £75.00
  • Eagle Circling etching by Piers Browne

    £65.00

 

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