Nigel Brown is a New Zealand artist known for his stained glass-style framing and layered paintings that incorporate text and comments on social issues. He builds paintings in layers with a colored ground, followed by large areas of lighter colors and details added through gestural mark-making, painting up to the edges of underlying darker shapes.

1. NIGEL BROWN
NZ ARTIST

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Features:
framing - like stained glass
windows
layers of paint
paint methods/techniques
including scumbling & dry
brushing

5. Often uses text
within the frame
Often makes
comments in work
about social issues or
things that are
important to him

6. builds paintings in
layers with a
coloured ground
underneath followed
by large simple
areas of lighter
colours then details
in using gestural
mark-making and
paints up to the
edges of the darker
shapes beneath