Featured Artist: Alan Brown

ALAN BROWN Alan Brown’s fascination with photography began in high school. He photographed events, historic buildings and even used his telescope to obtain “Life Magazine” worthy images of the moon. Then college, starting a family and running a family business left little time for photographic pursuits. In 1990, when he first journeyed to Kenya and Tanzania, he reclaimed his skills, recording images of exotic animal life and fascinating African tribesmen.It often took hours to capture just the right images...waiting for the sun to cast rays perfectly upon his subjects. With an artist’s eye, Alan would then compose and crop...clicking the shutter at just the right moment.Such perfect moments took the viewer along as wildebeests thundered up a cloud of dust, as a male lion guarded his zebra kill and as a mama leopard rested high on a branch. He photographed rhinos in the Ngorongoro Crater where they are monitored and later, traveling to Rwanda and Uganda, he photographed the endangered mountain gorillas and began a relationship with the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund.The Cleveland Museum of Natural History honored his talents with a three-month one-man exhibition of his photographs and his work was sold throughout North America by Gallery One.Continuing his activities as president (co-founder) of Gallery One, Alan was intrigued by the new giclee process. Working with this technology, he created original photographs as large as four feet by six feet. His images included scenes of the Americas, Europe and China...and his audience continued to widen.In the 80s and 90s, Alan had done his own color printing the traditional way, working in a dark room with enlargers and chemicals. Committed to the new giclee technology, he used his knowledge of photography to become expert at printing his works on canvas. And shortly thereafter, he began printing, publishing and distributing the giclee canvases of Jim Daly and Dean Morrissey, among others.