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Over many years, I have developed a practice of spontaneous painting. I begin each session with little intent for a specific outcome. I try to maintain an openness to discovery and play. To enter the mysterious world of color, texture and mark-making, I slow down. Intuitively, I select a limited palette – usually three colors plus white and black. Mixing the colors on the palette, I connect with amazement at all the colors that can come from so few. Each color has its own personality, which shifts and changes as it moves in rhythm with or in counterpoint to the others. I apply gestural marks and then react to them. The painting builds through successive “call and response.” Eventually, the painting asserts its presence and makes its own suggestions. Some days, I easily enter its trance and flow into the work. With luck and practice the paint, hand, brush, the painting’s desires and I all dance well together. More often, the dance is like a mosh pit – my ego, the paint and the marks spasmodically push each other around. I paint to live in this colorful dance, whatever form it takes.
Patricia Brown creates art in her Wild Spirit Art Studio on the edge of a gorge in Ithaca, New York. Brown creates drawings, paintings, collages, stitcheries and mixed media assemblages. Her artwork has been shown in venues such as the Spool Factory, Russell Sage Art Gallery, Forman Gallery, Yeager Museum, Impact Gallery, Center Way Gallery, WomanMade Gallery and the Cooperstown Art Association. Brown’s stitched Remnant Series is featured on TextileArtist.org in an article titled “Patricia Brown: From Rags to Stitches.” Brown’s drawings have been published in Traveling Through Glass (Cayuga Lake Books), a collaboration with poet Lisa Harris.
Brown’s artist catalogs Square Spaces, Abstract Painting, 2024 and Retreat, Collage in COVID Confinement, 2021 are available through State of the Art Gallery.
Patrica Brown taught visual art in public schools in central New York State; where she was awarded Art Educator of the Year. She holds a MS in Visual Arts Education from State University College at Buffalo. Artist, Patricia Brown, now works as a creative art coach and educational consultant in the visual arts.
