Thoughts of a Watercolour Artist
Brian D. Powell is an artist and original founding member of "The Three Brusketeers." Along the way ... Brian also happened to revolutionise the search and rescue industry. As a fire officer, designer, thinker and inventor he is directly responsible for some of the most profound health & safety advances the western world has seen. Brian Powell is not your average everyday inventive genius, he is simply one step ahead as a creative thinker, more than that, Brian is a man who understands the importance of acting to implement change. In addition to a distinguished career saving lives, Brian helped to raise a family. He then took time to see a bit of the world, recording those memories through his art and recording these in a 124-page full-colour booklet, available now, direct from the publisher.
Brian D. Powell is an artist and original founding member of "The Three Brusketeers."
Along the way ... Brian also happened to revolutionise the search and rescue industry. As a fire officer, designer, thinker and inventor he is directly responsible for some of the most profound health & safety advances the western world has seen. Brian Powell is not your average everyday inventive genius, he is simply one step ahead as a creative thinker, more than that, Brian is a man who understands the importance of acting to implement change.
In addition to a distinguished career saving lives, Brian helped to raise a family. He then took time to see a bit of the world, recording those memories through his art and recording these in a 124-page full-colour booklet, available now, direct from the publisher.
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<strong>Thoughts</strong> <strong>of</strong> a <strong>Watercolour</strong> <strong>Artist</strong><br />
The Three Brushketeers!<br />
We all met as volunteer committee members<br />
<strong>of</strong> the prestigious Carlisle and Cumbria Art<br />
Exhibition set up by a lady called Molly<br />
Mawson to help provide funds for the<br />
maintenance <strong>of</strong> Carlisle Cathedral.<br />
We three, Brian, Ge<strong>of</strong>f and Ray struck up a<br />
friendship having similar interests and<br />
ambitions for the Exhibition, which we saw as<br />
becoming a national event. This <strong>of</strong> course<br />
meant m ore work and c hanges to<br />
arrangements within the Fratry display hall<br />
that the Dean and Chapter granted us.<br />
Initially our suggestions were lauded,<br />
acclaimed and adopted. However, not 'all<br />
the best laid plans' come to fruition and 'we<br />
three' then decided to channel our efforts<br />
into a new direction. We decided to try<br />
exhibiting on our own to gain knowledge <strong>of</strong><br />
what we were undertaking.<br />
It was on a return trip from a particularly<br />
unsatisfactory visit at Penrith, Brian, summed<br />
up our generally held opinions by saying:<br />
'We should go it alone chaps.'<br />
That's how it was decided, democratically!<br />
He wasn't fnished …<br />
'And we should call ourselves …'<br />
The Three Brusketeers!<br />
How history is made!<br />
As a frst venture, I managed to approach and<br />
agree with the central church <strong>of</strong> St Cuthbert's to<br />
let us have the use <strong>of</strong> their large ancient parish<br />
hall, the Tithe Barn, for our frst exhibition, on<br />
condition we paid a proportion <strong>of</strong> our<br />
anticipated pr<strong>of</strong>ts. So, Brian and I being the<br />
practical ones set to, and built large wall panels<br />
and table units which were all demountable and<br />
storable in my garage.<br />
Ge<strong>of</strong>f, with his previous experience <strong>of</strong><br />
advertising, was in charge <strong>of</strong> publicity. Because<br />
<strong>of</strong> the size <strong>of</strong> the Tithe Barn, we realised we<br />
would require <strong>of</strong> a hundred paintings or more,<br />
so we asked another friend, Derek Bowman, to<br />
join us as our D'arkonion, which he readily did.<br />
This frst exhibition and all subsequent<br />
exhibitions were erected, manned and<br />
stewarded entirely by ourselves. We made a<br />
good pr<strong>of</strong>t for the church and as consequence<br />
were informed they would welcome future<br />
events.<br />
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