Ingrid Brown Verified listing

My work explores light, presence, and place as experience rather than document. It begins with direct observation, responding to a state of presence or changing conditions — shifting weather, human energy, tonal variation, and immediate sensory experiences.These studies are not treated as fixed instructions, but as starting points. In the studio, fragments are at times revisited and reworked, allowing memory and response to reshape what was seen.I am interested in the point where perception becomes unstable — where clarity gives way to atmosphere, and detail is replaced by something more transient. Within this space, painting becomes a way of holding presence without fixing it.Across both landscape and portrait work, the focus remains on how experience is carried rather than described.

My writing has been published in Leisure Painter & The Artist, Aspier Magazine (a publication celebrating Cornish literary arts), and US-based Wild Roof Journal & Thistle and Thread Press.Alongside my studio practice, I teach private tuition in observational painting, with an emphasis on developing a more intuitive relationship to looking and making. I also lead mindful garden sketching workshops for guests at Tregenna Castle Resort in St Ives.My paintings have been exhibited in London, including at the Russell Gallery, ING Discerning Eye, and various society exhibitions at the Mall Galleries, as well as in St Ives at the Penwith Gallery and with the St Ives Society of Artists.