Peter Brannan - Artist

Peter Brannan (1926-1994) was a painter, draughtsman, printmaker and teacher, born in Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire. He studied at Grimsby School of Art, then Leicester College of Art. He taught mainly in Newark, Nottinghamshire. Brannan was elected RBA in 1960 and was president of Lincolnshire and South Humberside Artists. He showed in exhibitions at The Royal Academy, New England Art Club, and elsewhere. Brannan had a series of solo shows with The Trafford Gallery, one at The Usher Gallery, Lincoln, 1978, and a retrospective at The Goldmark Gallery, Uppingham, in 1995. The Usher Gallery, Grundy House Museum in Blackpool and Lincolnshire Education Committee hold his work. Brannan admired and was influenced by the work of French Post-Impressionists, also Cotman and Chardin. He lived in Welbourn, Lincolnshire.