Evidence of Elsewhere explores the idea of somewhere, nowhere and elsewhere, a place that feels both familiar and impossible to locate, existing somewhere between memory and imagination. Layers of painterly marks build channels, ridges and shifting structures across the canvas, creating a surface that suggests a landscape without defining a specific place.
Gestural pink lines move through these layers like paths or routes, connecting fragments and drawing the eye across the surface. The work becomes a kind of map to somewhere undefined, a place that could be anywhere, if looked at closely enough.
Original, one of one
Signed
Oil on canvas, 30 × 40 cm
Framed in oak, 31 × 41 cm overall
David Iain Brown is a Glasgow-based artist whose practice navigates the space between painting, process, and material transformation. A graduate of Gray's School of Art, Aberdeen (BA Hons, MA Fine Art), Brown began in printmaking before shifting toward an expanded approach to painting.
Working with the residue of the studio (torn rags, old works, and salvaged textiles), he constructs layered abstract compositions that foreground process as both subject and method. His work is driven by cycles of destruction and renewal, where materials are continuously reworked and recontextualised.
Evidence of Elsewhere explores the idea of somewhere, nowhere and elsewhere, a place that feels both familiar and impossible to locate, existing somewhere between memory and imagination. Layers of painterly marks build channels, ridges and shifting structures across the canvas, creating a surface that suggests a landscape without defining a specific place.
Gestural pink lines move through these layers like paths or routes, connecting fragments and drawing the eye across the surface. The work becomes a kind of map to somewhere undefined, a place that could be anywhere, if looked at closely enough.
Original, one of one
Signed
Oil on canvas, 30 × 40 cm
Framed in oak, 31 × 41 cm overall
David Iain Brown is a Glasgow-based artist whose practice navigates the space between painting, process, and material transformation. A graduate of Gray's School of Art, Aberdeen (BA Hons, MA Fine Art), Brown began in printmaking before shifting toward an expanded approach to painting.
Working with the residue of the studio (torn rags, old works, and salvaged textiles), he constructs layered abstract compositions that foreground process as both subject and method. His work is driven by cycles of destruction and renewal, where materials are continuously reworked and recontextualised.