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A piece of sculpture displayed on his web site:
John Brown’s Professional Qualifications
1973-74 Foundation Studies in Art & Design at Wolverhampton Art College.1974-77 Fine Art sculpture at North Staffordshire Polytechnic.1977 Graduated with a First Class BAHons Fine Art. 1977-78 Post Graduate Studies in Art Education PGCE Art Ed. at Birmingham Schoolof Art Education.He has held various teaching positions such as :Appointed Art Teacher at Bridgnorth Endowed School Teacher.
1980-90 Head of Art Bridgnorth Endowed School teaching 11 to 18 year old students
1985–88-Art Teacher for Shropshire Adult Education evening classes teaching Art History and Life Drawing.
1985-Member of working party for Shropshire LEA publishing the document. ‘Art in Shropshire Schools’ as a framework for the then new National Curriculum in Art & Design.
1988–90 –External Examiner for Midlands Examination Board1990-Moved to Harlech in North Wales to work full-time as a visual artist. Set up studio at Hendre Ddyfrgi, Harlech.
1996 Complementary Studies Tutor at Coleg Menia, Foundation Art Studies. His most recent project is Director/Project Manager – Corlan Creadigol Harlech a Wales
Sculpture Workshops for young people.
Information Society project delivering creative design solutions and ITC workshops to the local community.
These pictures are of John’s final piece of the AP Symposium 20007 exhibition at Castra in Haifa.
Licry Bicard
“Throughout her trajectory in the artistic domain of El Salvador, Licry Bicard has been awarded the title “Hija Meritisima de El Salvador” (Daughter of Merit of El Salvador) by the Legislative Assembly in 2003. She has been one of the first artists to recover within her pictorial language, a strong expressive power laden with the ancestral symbolic world, as well as her own. Due to an amazing playful naturalness, the spectators can penetrate into her legitimate world, where they will always encounter unexpected jovial and ironic manifestations, as well as fears and dreams. The fundamental external features that distinguish her consist in the mastery of a great chromatic richness, without wasting the flashy tones, and a taste unconcerned of the decorative effects and the daring fusion of figurative and abstract formal compositions. The artist has created within an autonomous process that provokes associations, awakens memories, and arouses ideas, attempting to prevent the well-known visual models and the habitual points of perception from becoming experiences of precipitated recognition. With these proposals, Licry Bicard introduces the spectator to a pure aesthetic trend of rupture at the national level since the 70s of the 20th Century, in the face of eminently figurative paintings. There could not be, at this point in time, a better representative of our country in the face of the globalized world than Licry, coming from a land of turmoil and hope, in gratitude to her creative message.” DR. ASTRID BAHAMOND
SALVADOREAN ART HISTORIAN AND CRITIC
San Salvador, June 2007
Here is some pictures of her final work at the Castra exhibition.
