Barbara Brown is a California-based artist interested in figurative and landscape work. She is influenced by the Hudson River School, Thomas Moran, Albert Bierstadt, John Singer Sargent, Diego Velasquez, Artemisia Gentileschi, and Lucian Freud.
The expressive hand that creates energy and communicates liveliness in images but which are sometimes profoundly still, inspire her.
She finds Vermeer’s use of color and light, coupled with his highly refined layering techniques inspirational. She loves Egon Shiele’s linework and rough color application, as well as Lucian Freud’s powerful and evocative painterly techniques. Much of her work was destroyed in the Thomas Fire in 2017. Her subsequent series on that cataclysmic event was a part of her recovery. Her work since then has been an integral part of her healing process.