Once Mr Brown made the journey from Bath, he said he felt “like a kid in a sweet shop”.
“Painting Bristol was such an eye-opener for me,” he said.
“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.
“It’s got an amazing landscape to it, the lumps and bumps and the gorge and all that.
“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.
Mr Brown said he had only “scratched the surface” and was still “discovering the city in bits”.