I’m a Canadian artist based in Treaty One Territory, Winnipeg.

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

I document my natural environment and, through relief modelling and painting, transform the imagery into quasi-abstract scenes that explore mortality, personal mythologies, and existentialism. 

In my current work, I translate dying plants into visions of apocalypse and regeneration. Rather than specific narratives, I seach for visual vocabularies that describe states of constant change, creating surfaces that appear to grow outwards, collapse inwards, and reform. I also engage with the interaction of relief and painting, manipulating the viewer’s perception of space, surface, light, and shadow, and inviting mutable 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