Talking with Nick Brown in his Highland Park Studio about ice houses, impasto painting, and vanitas:
Brown’s most recent paintings oscillate between very lean and heavy paint appliqué. The images loosely depict deteriorating structures as they are absorbed back into nature:
One of Brown’s tide pool paintings (Still Life Nocturne Series)
Primitives (Still Life Nocturne)
Watercolor study and preparatory drawing
“Defiant” (Ice House Series)
“Hearth” (Ice House Series)
“Hearth” (detail)
(detail 2)
Marker (Ice House Series)
“Slumber” (Ice House Series)
“Sunken” (Ice House Series)
“Witness” (Ice House Series)
Brown’s Studio
Palette
A paint mound behind Nicks’ studio
(images courtesy www.nickbrownart.net and https://artdinners.wordpress.com)
Art and Dinner in Los Angeles! 