Neil Dallas Brown ARSA 1938-2003

Neil Dallas Brown was born in Elgin in August 1938, and after studying art at Dundee went on to teach there as a visiting lecturer and later, also, in the same capacity, at Glasgow School of Art. He was, for a while in the 1970s, a member of the Scottish society of Artists; was elected Associate of the Royal Scottish Academy in 1975, with full membership only a year later.

He held solo exhibitions in many Scottish galleries - Aitken Dott's, Demarco's in Edinburgh, Compass Gallery in Glasgow among them - and elsewhere in the UK, London not least. He took part also in many group exhibitions, including some prestigious ones such as Twelve Scottish Painters, which in 1970 toured the United States under the Maine State Commission on the Arts and Humanities. His work may be found in many public collections, both in the UK and abroad. 

More recently he exhibited in Dundee and elsewhere in east coast galleries. Although his own acknowledged influences were wide-ranging, from some American artists not least, it has to be said, yet again, that all his experience was surely subsumed in Dallas Brown's own powerful creativity.

RSA Obituary