Fiona Brown
My life and travels inform my work. I love texture, pattern, and the dance of colour. I also appreciate the subtle layering effects of variegated glazes over carved surfaces. I keep detailed visual journals from my travels, and re-visit them frequently for inspiration.
I love re-working designs from other cultures and integrating them into new contexts, whether on tiles or teabowls, plates or lanterns. I also love the overlapping of words and images, and their powerful presentation when juxtaposed. It is the element of story that most motivates me. The meandering yet purposeful lines of a tile mural or the re-contextualized motif from my travels speak to me of story, of the human connection to the earth. I am also a book-artist and a certified BC teacher. I live in a large shared house in the mountain town of Nelson, BC with my son, partner and two rambunctious Rhodesian Ridgeback hounds.
I love re-working designs from other cultures and integrating them into new contexts, whether on tiles or teabowls, plates or lanterns. I also love the overlapping of words and images, and their powerful presentation when juxtaposed. It is the element of story that most motivates me. The meandering yet purposeful lines of a tile mural or the re-contextualized motif from my travels speak to me of story, of the human connection to the earth. I am also a book-artist and a certified BC teacher. I live in a large shared house in the mountain town of Nelson, BC with my son, partner and two rambunctious Rhodesian Ridgeback hounds.