Form & Fold Art Opening with Heather Newton Brown Saturday, October 1 5-7pm
October 1, 2022 @ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Saturday, October 1 from 5-7pm. Art Opening Form and Fold with Heather Newton Brown
We are delighted to welcome back artist Heather Newton Brown. Keeping with her sensory and tactile art Heather keeps us on our toes with Form and Fold. Fabric is an important part of our lives and becomes a vibrant and tactile part of our memory. Clothes, furniture, tapestries and bedding create feelings of comfort, support, security, or even challenging feelings of constriction and discomfort. The experience of these forms and folds have been explored in this mixed media encaustic series that is part painting, part sculpture. Light hors d’oeuvres, drinks and instrumental music with Vanessa Jones opens our gallery season.
Thank you, Hannaford Supermarket & National Distributor for your in-kind support
ARTIST BIO –
Heather Newton Brown (She/Her) is a Maine-raised visual artist currently living in unceded Wabanaki territory now known as Casco with her family. Heather identifies as an “outsider artist,” who is largely self-taught, with instruction from local master-painter Pat Chandler and guidance from advisors at Goddard College, where she received her Bachelor’s of Arts. She also holds a Master’s degree in Counseling from Union Institute and University.
In her abstract work, Heather strives to communicate emotion, experience and connection in a way that is different from representation. These images both reflect and transform reality, in a way that is unique to her own experience, longing to connect to an experience that the viewer has had, or can have, in response. Heather believes there is always a call and response in art: between the artist and the substrate, the medium, the subject; as well as between the finished piece (as a conduit for the artist) and the viewer. In the studio, she strives to explore the balance between deconstruction and construction, the point when alchemy, inspiration, and vision collide. She is drawn to incorporating new and unexpected materials and is deeply involved in every step of the creative process: gathering materials, making paint, composition, execution and problem solving. Through the combination of forms, materials, and processes, something new is synthesized.
When not painting, Heather works as a psychotherapist. When not working, she enjoys spending time with her 4-legged and human companions, volunteering, nature pursuits, and scrounging around for scrap metal to rust, burn, and incorporate into her next painting.
Heather’s work can be found at: Vera’s Iron and Vine in Wilton, ME
Saturday, October 1 from 5-7pm. Art Opening Form and Fold with Heather Newton Brown
We are delighted to welcome back artist Heather Newton Brown. Keeping with her sensory and tactile art Heather keeps us on our toes with Form and Fold. Fabric is an important part of our lives and becomes a vibrant and tactile part of our memory. Clothes, furniture, tapestries and bedding create feelings of comfort, support, security, or even challenging feelings of constriction and discomfort. The experience of these forms and folds have been explored in this mixed media encaustic series that is part painting, part sculpture. Light hors d’oeuvres, drinks and instrumental music with Vanessa Jones opens our gallery season.
Thank you, Hannaford Supermarket & National Distributor for your in-kind support
ARTIST BIO –
Heather Newton Brown (She/Her) is a Maine-raised visual artist currently living in unceded Wabanaki territory now known as Casco with her family. Heather identifies as an “outsider artist,” who is largely self-taught, with instruction from local master-painter Pat Chandler and guidance from advisors at Goddard College, where she received her Bachelor’s of Arts. She also holds a Master’s degree in Counseling from Union Institute and University.
In her abstract work, Heather strives to communicate emotion, experience and connection in a way that is different from representation. These images both reflect and transform reality, in a way that is unique to her own experience, longing to connect to an experience that the viewer has had, or can have, in response. Heather believes there is always a call and response in art: between the artist and the substrate, the medium, the subject; as well as between the finished piece (as a conduit for the artist) and the viewer. In the studio, she strives to explore the balance between deconstruction and construction, the point when alchemy, inspiration, and vision collide. She is drawn to incorporating new and unexpected materials and is deeply involved in every step of the creative process: gathering materials, making paint, composition, execution and problem solving. Through the combination of forms, materials, and processes, something new is synthesized.
When not painting, Heather works as a psychotherapist. When not working, she enjoys spending time with her 4-legged and human companions, volunteering, nature pursuits, and scrounging around for scrap metal to rust, burn, and incorporate into her next painting.
Heather’s work can be found at: Vera’s Iron and Vine in Wilton, ME
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