Margaret Zox Brown

Margaret Zox Brown’s paintings are of authentic feelings and intimate realities that she has experienced firsthand. Having lived through some bleak times, she found that her painting was what got her through. During her most challenging times of living in New York as a single mother, she chose to paint the beauty she saw in her life struggles.

She says: “I am an oil painter, painting the beauty I have found in the everyday. My paintings are representational and large, often larger than my arm span. Their size signifies for me the abundance of life. And because I see and thus express these everyday moments as exceptional, I also make them expressive in colour and thick, luscious paint. I share the majesty that I see in my surroundings within a space of figurative intimacy.”

“I start by recognising a feeling, a mood, a moment, or even a shape that moves me. I look for the scene or objects that will help me bring these feelings out. I draw initially to find the essence of these feelings in order to really see, and then I paint from those drawings, getting out the whole emotion I am exploring.”

Brown live in New York City’s Greenwich Village.

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