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BROWNE, Alan Charlson, FRGS, FRES, AR(Cam)A. |
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Born in Liverpool, he received his early art education at the Hope Street School of Art in that city. He then went to New Zealand where he continued his study at the Christchurch School of Art, and exhibited at Christchurch, Wellington and Wanganui. Returning to England, he exhibited at Cambridge, Liverpool and Preston, etc. During this period he became an associate of the Royal Academy of Cambridge and was also elected a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and soon became very well known as a lecturer. Specialising in water colours and etchings, he favoured mountain scenery, since his chief recreation was mountaineering when in New Zealand. Here he achieved a certain fame by climbing Mt. Tasman, the highest mountain in New Zealand. It was on one of his sketching trips that he suffered a somewhat traumatic experience when a blizzard sprang up and he was trapped for eight days on a mountain ledge. From 1939 to 1945 he served as a Camouflage Officer with the Air Ministry. He came to Bristol in 1963 and exhibited at the Clifton Arts Club where he met Brother Savage Donald Hughes, who introduced him to the Tribe, and that same year he was elected an Artist Member. Clean shaven, good looking and of a quiet disposition, he walked with a slight limp, the legacy of a mountaineering accident in his youth. The Tribe does not possess any record of his activity in the studio, the time limit probably being insufficient for him. In 1964 he moved to Littlehampton where he underwent a rather serious operation. In 1966 he wrote from there requesting to be allowed to become a Country Member, which was afforded him. There is no record of his activities from that date. but he did move north and the last recorded address is Apply Bridge, near Wigan. One official purchase from him was by the Carnegie Trust of Washington D. C. of a set of hand painted slides. (Cecil Broome)
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