Denis Brown is an Irish calligrapher, who first became interested in calligraphy when he started studying it in his early teens as a schoolboy, falling in love with it from the beginning because of the ability to make interesting letters with just a few direct pen-strokes. Brown received his first commissions to produce calligraphy aged just 15, and went on to study a calligraphy degree at the Roehampton Institute in London, and was awarded a fellowship of the UK Society of Scribes and Illuminators at the same time. He was their youngest ever recipient, as well as their first Irish recipient.
Denis Brown describes his style of work as “pushing boundaries whilst continually refining and extending traditional calligraphic skills” and he uses letterforms and writing to create interesting 2D and 3D layered artwork, some of which features a use of mixed media. Brown is known in parts of the world as a leader in the field of calligraphy, and he spends time every year travelling around the world to teach workshops internationally at calligraphy guilds, and teaches through the internet with a Facebook page, an online video program (Calligraphy.TV) and a YouTube account, The real quick skill.
I like his more expressive stuff, the use of colour line and tone so I shall try and watch some of his stuff and take they way he works and put it into my own work.
