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Bernard Bryden<\/p>\nChloe HarcombeWest of England<\/p>\n
Bernard Bryden<\/p>\n
Peter Brown, also known as Pete the Street, paints landscapes and street scenes<\/p>\n
An artist who paints street scenes and landscapes around the world has released a book about his work in Bristol.<\/p>\n
Artist Peter Brown, also known as “Pete the Street”, has spent 32 years capturing views of cities including Bath, London and New York.<\/p>\n
He hopes the book Bristol Paintings will help readers discover new places and revisit familiar locations. <\/p>\n
“I just hope that I’ve captured some sort of feeling of what it’s actually like to live or be in Bristol,” he said.<\/p>\n
Mr Brown said he only started exploring the city during the Covid pandemic.<\/p>\n
He added: “That’s the beauty of drawing and painting, it really helps you look and analyse stuff and then you really discover the area.<\/p>\n
“The best compliment is when people say ‘I’ve lived here all my life and you’ve captured it’.”<\/p>\n
The 58-year-old began painting when he was about 15. <\/p>\n
Although he studied art at school and college, he gave it up until he moved to Bath for a foundation course in 1993.<\/p>\n
The city inspired him to start drawing again and he began creating and selling his work on the streets.<\/p>\n
He has captured punters at Glastonbury Festival, crowds mourning the late Queen Elizabeth II<\/a> outside Buckingham Palace and the public’s reaction after Banksy’s Valentine’s day mascara<\/a> appeared on the side of a house in Kent.<\/p>\n It took “ages” for Mr Brown to head to Bristol with his kit.<\/p>\n “I have no understanding why that is,” he said.<\/p>\n Beauley Road and Cliftonwood from Stackpool Road, Southville<\/p>\n The Avon Gorge over Brunel Way<\/p>\n Once Mr Brown made the journey from Bath, he said he felt “like a kid in a sweet shop”.<\/p>\n “Painting Bristol was such an eye-opener for me,” he said.<\/p>\n “It’s so different to Bath – Bath is a beautiful city, it’s always been a city of leisure, but Bristol is an industrial city that’s pulled in a huge, varied population. <\/p>\n “It’s got an amazing landscape to it, the lumps and bumps and the gorge and all that. <\/p>\n “There’s some beautiful traffic scenes which I’m inspired by, but also it’s nice painting the high streets and little residential areas and stuff like that,” he added.<\/p>\n Mr Brown said he had only “scratched the surface” and was still “discovering the city in bits”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chloe HarcombeWest of England Bernard Bryden Peter Brown, also known as Pete the Street, paints landscapes and street…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":284922,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[76,354,355,49,48,356,75],"class_list":{"0":"post-284921","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-ca","12":"tag-canada","13":"tag-design","14":"tag-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284921\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}