Piers Browne, The Wrekin from Caer Caradoc, signed, numbered 86/100, dated 1982, etching, 7.5 x 15cm (PL), 31 x 40cm framed

Piers Browne is a British contemporary artist based in Wensleydale, North Yorkshire. He was born in Shropshire and studied at the Byam Shaw School of Art in London where he found inspiration under the tutelage of Maurice de Saumarez and Diana Armfield. He then attended the Royal Academy Schools 1972-1972 where he won the David Murray Landscape Prize in both 1974 and 1975, and was taught printmaking at Islington Studio under Hugh Stoneman. Browne spent some time travelling through Europe and Central Africa whilst painting and eventually settled in Yorkshire. He has had over 75 one man exhibitions across the UK, Iceland, USA and in Germany and was a member of the Askrigg Group for 20 years. Browne is renowned as a printmaker, working extensively in oils and as an etcher.