Francis Kyle Gallery

Jonathan Briggs


Cligga Head, Near Perranporth	Morning on Mount Harry
oil 35.5 x 33.75 90 x 85.5cm	oil 33.5 x 31.5in 85 x 80cm

Cloudy day on the Downs, Beddingham Hill
oil 35.5 x 31.5in 90 x 80cm

Low tide, Exmouth
oil 31.5 x 35.5in 80 x 90cm

Price range: £ 4,500 - 6,500 (ex VAT)

Jonathan Briggs

Jonathan Briggs was born in Yorkshire in 1956 and has been practising as a full-time painter for some twenty years, following a period spent in the archaeology department of a national museum. He has been represented by Francis Kyle Gallery since 1985 and participated first in the Gallery's Ridgeway exhibition, shown also at the Museum and Art Gallery, Swindon and The Mount House Gallery, Marlborough. Much of Briggs' work from the Ridgeway project is reproduced in 'The Ridgeway: Europe's Oldest Road' (Phaidon Press, Oxford 1988). In 1995 he showed in Per una selva oscura: Artists take to the Forest.

In the early 1990s Briggs discovered the coastal landscape of Dorset, which proved a fertile vehicle for his explorations of cloud structure and the nucleus of his first one-man exhibition with Francis Kyle Gallery in 1993. In 1994 he exhibited at the Schloss Landestrost, Hanover, when his work was purchased by the State Government of Lower Saxony. Second and third one-man exhibitions with Francis Kyle Gallery followed in 2001 and 2003, when he showed work mainly from Devon, Sussex, Somerset and East Anglia, developing his distinctive vision of harmonious landscape. In 2003 Briggs participated in the Gallery's theme exhibition Roma, contributing a sequence of paintings from the Alban hills, in 2005 he took part in Lair of The Leopard: twenty artists go in search of Lampedusa's Sicily and in 2006 he took part in Everyone Sang: a View of Siegfried Sassoon and His World by twenty-five painters today. Fifth one-man exhibition 2009.