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If you like our writing, we’d be much obliged if you would click the ❤️ or the 🔁 icon on this post so more collectors, art lovers, and artists can discover us on Substack. 🙏 Audrey BrownBoldBrush Recommends: Audrey Brown
A daily newsletter featuring today’s finest visual artists. Today's Newsletter is Brought to You by BOLDBRUSH.Free Art Marketing Webinar with Blair AtherholtFree and Open webinar for all visual artists happening this Thursday, November 7th at 11:00 AM CDT!Join us for a free, artist-focused webinar! Dive into art, creativity, & marketing with fine artist Blair Atherholt & the Marketing Team. This webinar is open to all artists! Thursday, November 7th at 11:00am CDT (12:00pm EDT, 10:00am MDT, 9:00am PDT) BoldBrush Recommends: Audrey BrownGet Notified When Audrey Posts New Art BiographyAudrey Brown grew up on the Manitoba prairies, and later moved to Port Alberni where she met and married her husband. After living in many small towns in northern BC, including Haida Gwaii they moved to Vancouver, British Columbia. While living and working in Vancouver she pursued her dream to continue her art studies at Emily Carr University of Art and Design. During that time she supplemented her university courses with various art workshops until she graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in 2013. When she retired, she and her husband moved to Salt Spring Island, BC. Salt Spring provided the inspiration she needed to pursue her art full-time, and during that time she and her husband sailed on their 42 ft sailboat to various remote areas, such as the Broughton Archipelago, Desolation Sound and Haida Gwaii. The experience of living and working in small towns, meeting new people and observing various wildlife and beautiful scenery influences Audrey's art Audrey's abstract, non-representational art strives to convey a variety of emotions we experience while traveling on our journey of life by juxtaposing color, shape, line and texture. Audrey is an member of the Federation of Canadian Artists with Active Status and The Society of Canadian Artists. Artist Statement My art and art process is heavily influenced by having to move every 3 to 5 years and living in small and large communities. The excitement of moving to a new place begins as soon as I start packing up our belongings. Although I thoroughly enjoyed each place we lived in and the people we met and friends we made, I was always glad that it was me who was moving on to a new adventure, and not the one left behind. Each time I step into my studio I feel as if I am embarking on a new adventure. I have all my familiar things around me, but each new painting is an opportunity to explore new techniques and new ideas. My blank canvas, for me is like moving to a new place where everything is fresh, unexplored and full of potential. Not knowing what this new adventure or new painting will become is what excites and invigorates me. Then the struggle begins. Just as I learned to adapt and fit in my new environments, I also have to learn to push and pull my way through the painting in order to let it evolve through the various stages in the creative process. It is a wonderful feeling when you finally reach the stage where you realize you are actually fitting in and living in a new community and not just visiting it. That's what I feel when I reach the stage when I let go, and begin to listen to what the painting tells me what it needs. It is at this point when I give up my preconceived ideas about what I think the painting should be that the creative juices begin to flow. I am in tune with my painting, and the struggle ends. My inspiration for my art comes from not only the surroundings I live in, but also artists who are bold, adventurous and authentic such as: Trudy Benson who paints bold, bright geometric shapes, and Anastessia Bettas who creates topographical landscapes by painting layers and layers of paint and then scraping back into them creating grids and of course Wassily Kandinsky the father of abstract art. I would like my viewers to embark on a visual adventure by exploring the various brush strokes, color, shape, texture and line, juxtaposition together to elicit a visceral experience. Creating Art is about Creating Magic. New Artwork by FASO Members Your art could be here tomorrow, for free.
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