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.

My process begins with my environment. I search for compositions, shapes, and textures that feel somehow charged – like they could become more than themselves. In my studio, I intuitively work and re-work 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.

I also engage 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