Brighton Royal Pavilion Matinee Song

Print description

This print presents the pavilion dressed up for an elegant night soiree. Brighton Pavilion Art shows the West façade elevation of Brighton Royal Pavilion which was gloriously remodelled by architect John Nash in Indo-Saracenic style. The background of this print is a section of an Asian decorative motif from ‘The Grammar of Ornament’ a book by Victorian architect Owen Jones.

Print details

I create this print from my original ink drawings and apply colour digitally. I print them on fine art paper using archival inks. I issue formats A0, A1, A2, A3, and A4 as limited editions of 100, and I individually sign and number each print.

Brighton Pavilion Art

John Nash remodelled The Brighton Royal Pavilion into what we can see today in glorious  Indo-Saracenic style. The works of the Marine Pavilion began in 1815 and took seven years to complete. George chose architect John Nash who proposed an Indian style in response to the design of the new stable block. Nash was also inspired by landscape gardener Humphrey Repton (who had published designs for a new palace based on Indian architectural forms) and based many of his ideas on a publication called Oriental Scenery by Thomas and William Daniell (1795-1808).

The complex composition of domes, towers and minarets created a romantic exterior. Either side of the central large dome are two towers that serviced the interior rooms over the Saloon, one with a staircase, the other with a hoist. To achieve a picturesque effect the rendered surfaces of the Royal Pavilion were painted to create a unified vision of a building made of Bath stone.