Biography - Ann-Marie Brown

After completing studies in Europe and a Cultural Studies degree in Canada, Ann-Marie Brown began an artistic practice which led her to encaustic & oil painting. "She paints from the eyes of compassionate experience, witnessing life in its raw infallible beauty" - Joanna McKenzie Enga curator Gibsons Public Art Gallery Ann-Marie's oil and encaustic paintings have been exhibited across Canada & the United States, and included in private, public, and corporate collections. She has been awarded residencies, most recently an extended residency in Helsinki Finland. "Brown's art is like that: the longer you look, the less certain you are of what you see"--Joseph Rosen-Blank Spaces magazine December 2018 “Ann-Marie Brown's lush oil and encaustic paintings are an invitation to linger”. If you accept the invitation, the painting indeed becomes a presence that emerges from the canvas. Brown creates an experience for the viewer: the painting reads you, opens something inside you like haiku. - Bronwyn Melville (2022 Winter Edition of Encaustic Arts Magazine published by the Museum of Encaustic Art in Santa Fe)