A beach scene at Sidmouth with families on the beach enjoying the August sun.

Stephen Brown was born in Chard, Somerset in 1947. He studied at Somerset College of Art in under Patrick Larking RP ROI in the 1970s. He has exhibited at the Royal West of England Academy, the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition and the New English Arts Club. He also exhibits annually with the Royal Society of British Artists (RBA) where he was elected member in 1997. At the beginning of 2003 he was elected membership of The Small Paintings Group and has written articles for International Artist magazine on painting the English Landscape. Painting in oils, he finds his subjects on the beach near his home in Sidmouth, in the Devon countryside and more recently in and around Dartmouth and the vast chalky landscapes of Salisbury Plain. Summer holidays in Italy have given him the opportunity to paint in Venice, Lake Garda and further south in Tuscany in the area around the Marrema.