Artist Ann-Marie Brown’s lush oil and encaustic paintings are an invitation to linger. Learn more about this artist and view her portfolio by visiting her website.
From Left to Right: “On Thin Ice 1” and “On Thin Ice 2” Encaustic and Oil, Each 22” x 28”
I paint layer upon layer of oil and wax on the canvas.
“Plums” Encaustic and Oil, 12” x 12”
There is an unpredictability to this process which I appreciate, because it disrupts my intention for a piece and opens a dialogue with the emerging image.
“End of Day” Encaustic and Oil, 9” x 12”
I think that the mind that is painting is more interesting than the mind that is thinking about painting.
“Poison” Encaustic and Oil, 20” x 20”
Having a process that doesn’t allow me to visualize a painting, and then methodically arrive at that painting provides an opportunity for the active painting mind to push the work to a place that wasn’t consciously available.
“Desi in Her Mother’s Dress” Encaustic and Oil, 30” x 40”
The marks that build up on the canvas while the painting is being fought for have a value—like scars and wrinkles on a person they are a story of becoming, written on the body.
“Texture of Our Loss” Encaustic and Oil, 30” x 30”
In my figure works the subject of the painting isn’t the likeness, but the encounter itself, the dynamic exchange.
“Flowers for the Reds” Encaustic and Oil, 22” x 28”
Because the paintings are worked on over time, that exchange shifts one day to the next. With each fresh encounter, I incorporate that day’s perspective into the painting. The resolved painting then contains contradictory elements within its singularity.
“In To Battle” Encaustic and Oil, 9” x 12”
The historic paintings that speak to me the most invoke a visceral response. Standing in front of a painting by Francis Bacon, I’m not critiquing, I’m falling.
“Devlin Boxing” Encaustic and Oil, 30” x 40”
I hope that my paintings can articulate something of the experience of being human. So that the viewer, in seeing, is somehow remembering having a vague memory made flesh.
“Forgotten Slippers” Encaustic and Oil, 9” x 12”
I really believe that the function of art is to make us feel less alone.
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