Norma Brown

 

A Multi-media painter, native Oklahoman Norma Brown has spent her life learning and sharing her artistic abilities. As a child, she received both public and private art instruction – including summer studies at Tulsa’s Philbrook Art Museum. Her degree in Education and Art prepared her well for the many years she has spent teaching individual and group classes and workshops. Always an eager student herself, Brown continues her own formal and independent studies and combines both experimentation and rigorous research to improve and develop her technique. 

          Brown Specializes in Impressionistic oils of English gardens and landscapes, traveling often to England to paint on location. A versatile painter who is equally comfortable with such diverse media as oil, watercolor, acrylic and charcoal, Brown has received many awards in juried and invitational shows both locally and nationally and has contributed more then a decade of successful one-woman shows.  Her work appears in the United States, Europe, and South America. 

          All of Brown’s work is completely original; all exemplify her years of experience, training, and dedication to quality. 

 

“The opportunity to work in various locations- both in the United States and abroad- helps keep my work fresh. I am inspired to search for new ways of responding to my unfamiliar surroundings (and frequently adverse conditions) with varying color, texture, and light. Recent travels to England, Scotland, and Israel have been particularly influential in my evolution as an artist.”

 

“The viewer’s imagination and experiences are always an important and inseparable part of my work. I seek to capture a certain mood; the viewer’s response – positive or negative- is the result of that attempt.” 

 

“Varying both the subject matter and the media is important to me. It helps keep my work from being static, and I learn something new with each piece. I have learned to develop themes from the natural or accidental confluence of line and color so that my work has become interpretative rather then photographic in style.”

 

“I would like to think that my work is a contribution to the times; a trace of footprint of individuality which shares a bit of the art spirit with fellow strugglers- artist and non-artist alike.”