Erin Frances Brown is a Canadian artist based in Treaty One Territory, Winnipeg.

Brown creates biomorphic painted reliefs that merge nature with internal experience and play in the zone between abstraction and representation.

The process begins with her environment. She searches for compositions, shapes, and textures that feel somehow charged – like they could become more than themselves. In her studio, she intuitively works and re-works the forms in modelling clay, then later in paint, gradually transforming elements like decaying leaves into quasi-abstract scenes that suggest speculative fiction, entropy, and mental states.

Brown also engages with the interaction of relief and painting, manipulating the viewer’s perception of space, surface, light, and shadow. The results are highly pareidolic, inviting the mind to flicker between multiple interpretations of the image – especially as one walks around the work, causing the topography and colour balance to shift.

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Border Crossings, “Crossovers: Erin Frances Brown,” by Leesa Streifler, March 2026