“Ann-Marie Brown paints the human figure as it engages her being and daily movements. She captures the sensation of a human being, becoming, growing, changing, and yet simultaneously having arrived in its fullness. Her figurative paintings, therefore, shift between form and formlessness. She captures a moment of stillness, an image seen, sensed, in ‘the blink of an eye’. She paints from the eyes of compassionate experience, witnessing life in its raw infallible beauty. Her paintings explore the mercurial duality of existence; creation and disintegration. This simple circularity and the tension of its continuous change is captured through her layer upon layers of paint and wax. The effect is mesmerizing and as one moves before her paintings, the figures also appear to change, follow, revealing the unsettling tension of form becoming and its arrival.”

– Joanna Mackenzie-Enga
Curator, Gibsons Public Art Gallery