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.

Her 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 puzzles over her findings, intuitively working and re-working the forms in modelling clay, then later in paint, gradually transforming leaves into quasi-abstract scenes that suggest fantasies, mental states, and sensorial experiences.

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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