Nigel Brown was born in Invercargill 1949, raised on orchards, and graduated from Elam School Of fine Arts With a BFA. In 2004 he was awarded the Order of NZ merit for services to painting and printmaking. An extensive range of publications feature his work, described as a symbolic expressionist. Brown features in two films on the inaugral Artists to Antarctica event and in a film about a trip to Dusky Sound. While most of his early career was in Auckand in 2001 the artist and his partner shifted to Cosy Nook in Southland. While preodominately a painter, he has worked in lithography and woodcut, medallions, sculpture, stained glass and book illustration.

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