Conversation with Elizabeth Brown

ABOUT ELIZABETH BROWN

About Elizabeth Brown My parents where in the sciences and fostered in me a curiosity about the natural world which then led to questions of what things were made of and how they worked. My interest in art grew into a combination of visual study and physical exploration.

From my observations of nature, I developed a fascination with leaves and their ever-changing potential in shape, size and color. All of these to be found in my own back yard, thousands of similarities and variations. The leaf form is not constant; it responds to the environment, and in the same way, my artwork responds to the changing materials and surfaces I use in my experimentations.

Leaves are a single unit from the many hundreds of thousands on a tree, yet each one unique. I use these individual shapes to create patterns by multiplying, mirroring and overlapping. I enjoy the unexpected visuals when these shapes are arranged bringing each leaf together where it shares a point of connection and where indescribable spaces emerge between.