Following a BA in Fine Art at Portsmouth, Brian was awarded a travel scholarship to the USA, where he gained his Masters Degree at the University of Eastern Illinois. Brian's paintings start with an idea, often of an image remembered, it might be a landscape, an interior or a still-life. As he paints, he tries to reduce and simplify the image to capture and convey the mood or atmosphere it created. The vigorous compositions of colour and light that result create a very real sense of space. Brian's paintings can be seen as celebrations of colour which are both decorative and sensual. Colours glow and sing with a vibrancy and sensuality that become expressions of the joy of life.