AnnMarie Brown "Quietplace"

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A Quiet Place P A I N T I N G S A N D A N S W E R S Ann-Marie Brown

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Paintings and poetry by AnnMarie Brown

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A Quiet PlaceP A i n t i n g s A n d A n s w e r s

Ann-Marie Brown

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A Quiet Place

Paintings and Answers

Ann-Marie Brown

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A Quiet Place

Copyright © 2010 by Ann-Marie Brown

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the author.

Design and Production: Wendy Crumpler, Maxart.com Author Photo: ©Krista OckendenPrinted in Canada by.

Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

Brown, Ann-Marie

A Quiet Place / Ann-Marie Brown.

ISBN xxx-x-xxxxxxx-x-x

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A Quiet Place

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winter wood

these woods become my woods.

When I run ahead of everyone

We will be wild together.

Let the wolf come.

Where trees

and stories

entwine.

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When I run ahead of everyone

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A Quiet Place

This rock is my quiet place.

On it,

sheltered by rushes,

I can hear the sound of the creek singing over th

e stones.

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I can hear the sound of the creek singing over th

e stones.

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A summer Haze

I run

towards the warmth of a towel

in the hot sun,

but soon

the salt taste left on my lips

where, once more,

I am a dolphin

tugs me back to the ocean

in the waves.

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tree girl

In it I unfurl like one of her leaves, and

am as content as one of her apples.

The

strength

of the

earth

rushes up

the trunk

of this tree.

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tidepool

Still on the surface.

The only way to see a tidepool

is

to

step

into

it.

T e e m i n g w i t h l i f e b e n e a t h .

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Moth

When you disguise yourself

as your self

that nobody sees,

flowers turn their faces

towards you.

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shaping sand

If you are building

something that won’t last,

it’s best to make it

as Beautiful

as you can.

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Queen

Cast shadows of leaves

become shapes of figures,

beckoning me to be their Queen.

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A Butterfly’s wings

For just a moment,

My dress,

I a m a i r b o r n e .

a b u t t e r f l y ’ s w i n g s .

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Fall

Crisped leaves

under my feet.

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Ann-Marie Brown is a painter

who currently occupies a narrow strip

of land between the forest and the

sea on the west coast of Canada. She

has been exhibiting her paintings in

Canada and the United States for the

past decade.

The seed for this book was planted at her exhibition for the Quiet

Place paintings. The show took place in Montreal at a gallery in the

Mile End neighbourhood, one of those enclaves sprouting up across

North America where parents bring the kids along for live music and

art shows.

The children at the exhibition were interested in the paintings,

talked about their ideas of what was going on for the figures, and

confided about their own quiet places. From these conversations, the

idea of turning the show into a coffee table art book for kids was born.

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Praise for Ann-Marie Brown

Ann-Marie Brown is an absolute master of visual poetry. Ian MacphersonGo-go Radio Magic ShowCJLO

Ann-Marie Brown is a new talent. She overlaps layers of molten wax, resin and oil paint to disintegrate and veil her figurative subjects.

© Mia JohnsonPreview Magazine

Ann-Marie depicts children as honestly as she does adults. She’s impressed with their passions, surprises and how engaging they can be, and brings these aspects to life with numerous layers of material, just until she’s captured a single moment in time.”

Milena KatzParkhurst Exchange

Ann-Marie paints the human figure as it engages her being and her daily movements. She captures the sensation of a human being, becoming, growing, changing, yet simultaneously having arrived in its fullness. Her figurative paintings therefore shift between form and formlessness. She captures a moment of stillness, an image seen, sensed, in ‘the blink of an eye’. She paints from the eyes of compassionate experience, witnessing life in its raw infallible beauty.

Joanna Mackenzie-Enga