KANGAROO Flat local Col Brown has been announced as the resident artist for this year\u2019s Rotary Bendigo Easter Arts Show.<\/p>\n
A regular contributor to the Show, Brown was awarded best oil\/acrylic piece at last year\u2019s event for his work I Got Bit<\/em>, which was painted in his classic \u201cbush art\u201d style.<\/p>\n Coming in as the resident artist, Brown said the lead up to this year\u2019s event had been a bit different.<\/p>\n \u201cThankfully they let me know just after Christmas because I have been working frantically ever since,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n \u201cAs resident I don\u2019t just have the usual four pieces I enter, but I need all the other pieces to put on display as well.\u201d<\/p>\n Brown has been painting and drawing for as long as he can remember, and he said his talent is something his mum takes credit for.<\/p>\n \u201cMy mother always attributed my artistic ability to her,\u201d he said. \u201cShe said I was a brat of a kid when I was little and a bit hyperactive.<\/p>\n \u201cSo, to give her some peace she would give me a box of pencils and a few bits of paper to keep me quiet.\u201d<\/p>\n It was while away on holidays that Brown realised he might have a future in the art world.<\/p>\n \u201cI went down to the beach, set up my camp, put up my easel and started painting these little five by seven-inch canvases,\u201d he said. \u201cI would paint one, pull it off and put it aside.<\/p>\n \u201cThen I feel this little tap on my shoulder, so I turn around and there are about 20 people watching me.<\/p>\n \u201cA guy asked me how much I wanted for one of them, so I said five dollars. He said, \u2018I\u2019ll take that one down there and the one you are working on now\u2019.<\/p>\n \u201cI ended up cutting all my canvases up to five by sevens and it paid for my holiday while I was down there.\u201d<\/p>\n You can catch Brown at this year\u2019s Easter Art Show run by the Rotary Club of Bendigo at Town Hall from Friday, 7 April to Monday, 10 April.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" KANGAROO Flat local Col Brown has been announced as the resident artist for this year\u2019s Rotary Bendigo Easter Arts Show. A regular contributor to the Show, Brown was awarded best oil\/acrylic piece at last year\u2019s event for his work I Got Bit, which was painted in his classic \u201cbush art\u201d style. Coming in as the […]<\/p>\n