Kristen Brown

In the Fields, Oil Painting

2022

Artist Comments
Artist Kristen Brown offers an abstracted take on classic landscape painting. She depicts ethereal clouds sweeping across an open field. A delicate blend of lilac and white sweep across the majestic sky. Kristen combines quick and soft brushstrokes to create a nostalgic feel and a dreamlike atmosphere.

About the Artist
Artist Kristen Brown sheds light on the fragility of memories with her dreamlike portraits. Kristen uses her knowledge of photography to create motion blur, distortion and multiple exposures in her oil paintings, overlapping figures, landscapes and cityscapes. The models in her paintings are referenced from people close to her, and the locations are significant places from various time periods throughout her life. "I will often use multiple places or time periods in a painting to illustrate the idea of being taken back into a past moment from a current one, or the idea of the past and present feeling as though they are happening simultaneously," she explains. In the rare cases when she is not painting, you can find her printmaking, dabbling in ceramics, traveling, playing guitar or meditating. Kristen graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Saskatchewan in Canada and a Master of Fine Arts from the Academy of Art University in San Francisco, CA.

Words that describe this painting: clouds, landscape, sky, field, rural, nostalgic, soft, dreamy, painterly, small, oilpaint, impressionism, impressionism, landscape, oil painting, purple

In the Fields
Kristen Brown
Oil painting on cradled wood panel
Natural wood edges
One-of-a-kind
Signed on back
2022
8 in. h x 8 in. w x 2 in. d
1 lbs. 6 oz.