le brun studied painting at the slade school of art (1970–74) and chelsea school of art (1974–75). since then he has taught and lectured extensively at art schools throughout the country, in particular until 1984 at brighton, the slade, chelsea, and wimbledon. in 1982 he participated in the influential "zeitgeist" exhibition at the martin-gropius-bau berlin. following this he had many solo exhibitions in galleries both in europe and the united states, such as sperone westwater, rudolf zwirner, nigel greenwood, la louver and marlborough fine art. le brun has exhibited in many significant surveys of international art, including "nuova immagine", milan 1981, "an international survey of recent painting and sculpture", moma new york 1984, "avant-garde in the eighties", los angeles 1987 and "contemporary voices", moma new york 2005.