DRAKE BRISCOE : Chinoiserie painted furniture, original impressionist landscapes by Mark Briscoe

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	Welcome to drakebriscoe.com - Here you will find a collection of paintings by the British artist Mark Briscoe, renowned for his chinoiserie decorated furniture, Classical Indian paintings, and his more recent expressionist works in Tempera and oil. Please click on the image below to view a gallery of his recent works which include flower painting, still life painting, portraits, paintings of animals, and some more unusual surreal compositions. Mark uses egg tempera. emulsified with oil that makes a fantastic art medium not only for impressionist landscape paintings, but also for wildlife art, impressionist flower paintings, floral compositions, and animal studies.

I am a full time artist originally from the U.K. I moved out to Spain a few years ago to escape the well known English weather. For many years I have worked in the field of Chinoiserie furniture decoration (furniture decorated in the Chinese manner) restoration of antique lacquer and Indian paintings. In more recent years I have been concentrating on fine art compositions on panels using a combination of oil and egg tempera.
Tempera - when combined with oils - is a wonderful and durable paint medium, and through exhaustive studio experimentation I have found it to be the most versatile and enjoyable of mediums. I am very much of the school of thought as was Tom Keating that most of the old masters (including many 19th century masters) used egg tempera/oil emulsions in their paintings a lot more than is given credit for.

The color pigments which I buy from L. Cornelissen in London are of the finest grade and completely light-fast/ permanent: They will not fade. My works are mostly landscapes, botanical studies, portraits and still life compositions. some quite traditional like a vase of flowers painting, a dramatic landscape, a classic portrait, or a still life with fruit, and some others are a little more surreal.
In many of my paintings I use a fairly bold quivering line that reminds us of the works of Van Gogh although my technique is fundamentally different to his.

Among my favorite well known artists are Peter Paul Rubens, François Boucher, J.M.W. Turner, and Claude Lorrain. More recent artists include: Salvador Dali, Vincent van Gogh, Paul Gauguin, Claude Monet, and Pablo Picasso.

I hope you enjoy the pages of this website and please feel free to contact me should you have any inquiries.

"why is the modern day artist always required to explain everything about his work? Certainly a work of art involving several old car tyres strung to a ceiling with mouldy baked bean cans attached would require some sort of explanation. But since when did aesthetics take a back seat in painting, good old fashioned beauty, Many of todays modern 'art works' will surely one day be returned from whence they came; namely, the scrap heap" - Mark Drake-Briscoe