Deborah Brown HRUA

Deborah Brown was born in Belfast in 1927. She studied painting at Belfast College of Art from 1946 under Romeo Toogood and Newton Penprase before enrolling at the National College of Art and Design in Dublin in 1947. After three years studying in Dublin, she continued her studies in Paris.

Brown’s oeuvre was expansive across both medium and subject. She settled working in sculpture from the 1960s in fibre glass, papier mache and bronze which developed from her initial experimentation in painting from both realist and abstract traditions.