| Vincent Brown | |
| Birth Name: | Vincent Michael Brown |
| Birth Date: | 1971 12, df=yes |
| Birth Place: | Bristol, England |
| Occupation: | Portrait Artist Musician Composer |
| Nationality: | British |
Vincent Michael Brown (3 December 1971) is an English artist and portrait painter, composer and musician, and co-founder of Browns' Arts Centre, an art school and studio located at The Clock Tower Association in Warmley, Bristol.
Vincent Michael Brown was born in Bristol in 1971. He began exhibiting and receiving portrait commissions from the age of eleven, although he did not become a full-time professional artist until 2002. His early paintings and drawings were mainly acrylic or ink studies of family and friends, still a major theme within his work.
Vincent is also a composer, musician and singer/ songwriter, working as a performer from 1988 until 2002.[1]
Vincent worked as an illustrator for a London-based agency and a New York publisher from 2002 to 2004, while also producing portraits in his spare time.
In 2004, a portrait of his father was short-listed for the BP Portrait Awards and featured in an exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, London.[2] This selection for the exhibition, along with a solo exhibition in Bristol, garnered him significant media attention and helped launch his career as a full-time artist.
A portrait of his parents won the 2006 Holburne Portrait Prize,[3] judged by Rachel Campbell Johnson (Times art critic), Sir Peter Blake(Artist), and Bel Mooney (Author). This win resulted in a portrait commission[4] of the Triple Academy Award-winning directors of Aardman Animations, hailing from his hometown of Bristol, UK. In 2008, the Holburne Museum hosted Vincent's second solo exhibition, showcasing the portrait along with other works.
Vincent's paintings have earned numerous awards and been exhibited in various exhibitions throughout the UK and the world.
Twice, Vincent has been invited as an artist to The Royal Society of Portrait Painters' [5] annual exhibition at the Mall Galleries, London.
In 2020, Vincent was featured on Sky Arts' Portrait Artist of the Year, where he painted and had his work selected by British Actor David Haig.[6]
In 2021, a family portrait by Vincent was shortlisted for the Ruth Borchard Self-Portrait Prize and exhibited at Coventry Cathedral as part of the Capitol of Culture celebrations.[7]
During 2024, two of Vincent's paintings were exhibited at the Arter gallery in Istanbul as part of a curated show of selected works from the collection of influential art collector Ömer Koç. Vincent's works were displayed alongside those of artists such as Picasso, Chagall, Hockney, Howard Hodgkin, Otto Dix, Chuck Close, Andy Warhol, Gustav Klimt, Sarah Lucas, Roy Lichtenstein, Richard Hamilton, Albrect Dürer, Man Ray, Cindy Sherman, and others.[8]
BP Portrait Award 2004 & 2007 National Portrait Gallery (London)