Angela Brown explores the physical and cultural landscape of Athens, and her relationship between the monumental and the human, while focusing on the female form and identity as an integral part of the cityscape. This new series spans a wide range of styles and themes which are borrowed from illustration (collage) as well as painting to include figuration, the landscape and the brute. This is Angela's way of using different mediums to explore the city's myriad, polymorphic facets and its "subjects" in an experimental manner. 

Angela had the goal of examining her relationship with the city and with life itself after a life-threatening illness in order both process and describe what has been nothing short of a miraculous recovery, one might even say, a renaissance and it It was essential for her to experience and study the reality of nature, life and her own identity in a focused and concerted way through a combination of survey and experimentation in Athens. Several paintings such as Fair Isle, Scotland : Near South Light, reference memories of her pastoral life in the highlands of  Scotland, while others like Fairground Attraction and She Wasn't Where I Left Her, reference the difficulties that Angela faced before moving to Edinburgh several years ago. In the case of Exarchia, where freedom [of expression] is both so treasured and threatened, there is also a hint of humor and irony where all things identifiably brutal, free, and angelic coincide.

For Angela and her angels, Exarchia is a place rife with the resurgent experience of renewal. This holds a certain irony as well, for why shouldn't we assume that we are innately innocent and free, no matter where we find ourselves?

"This experience has allowed me to go bigger, bolder and explore a more personal and playful take on the landscape tradition."    

What is your soul?

Shutters and concrete, filtered light

Tenement eyes

A sanctuary?

-Angela Brown

From notes and meditations on painting in Athens