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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
A Quiet Place
Paintings and Answers
Ann-Marie Brown
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
A Quiet Place
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.
When I run ahead of everyone
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.
I can hear the sound of the creek singing over th
e stones.
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.
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.
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 .
Moth
When you disguise yourself
as your self
that nobody sees,
flowers turn their faces
towards you.
shaping sand
If you are building
something that won’t last,
it’s best to make it
as Beautiful
as you can.
Queen
Cast shadows of leaves
become shapes of figures,
beckoning me to be their Queen.
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 .
Fall
Crisped leaves
under my feet.
‘
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.
©K
rist
a O
cke
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en
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