Virginia and Friends
Size: 19" X 23"
Year: 2020
This framed 19” x 23” watercolor on paper features Virginia and Friends. The work features two friends dressed for an evening on the town. The artwork elicits a touch of nostalgia, a splash of fashion and texture, and is the perfect art addition to a living room or home office.
Size: 19" X 23"
Year: 2020
This framed 19” x 23” watercolor on paper features Virginia and Friends. The work features two friends dressed for an evening on the town. The artwork elicits a touch of nostalgia, a splash of fashion and texture, and is the perfect art addition to a living room or home office.
Size: 19" X 23"
Year: 2020
This framed 19” x 23” watercolor on paper features Virginia and Friends. The work features two friends dressed for an evening on the town. The artwork elicits a touch of nostalgia, a splash of fashion and texture, and is the perfect art addition to a living room or home office.
Sharon Brown Artist Statement
I have been drawing people since I could hold a crayon. The human presence is a constant in my work. Often beginning with old snapshots, candid photos of family and strangers, I try to capture slices of time, evocative moments. I am fascinated by what home photographers inadvertently catch: images that are casual and non-reverential, the subjects captured without their masks on, the scene not lit or staged. The results are situations, faces and places that resonate with viewers, reminding them of the life they really led instead of the stories they created about their pasts.
Perhaps my interests in family images and portraits of people in unguarded moments come from growing up with a father, a grandfather and a brother who were psychiatrists. Perhaps my desire to draw and paint was formed by a mother and her three sisters, all of whom were artists and enthusiastically encouraged me. In any case, I grew up surrounded by art, artists, and lively conversations about people. After college, art took a backseat to other career and family demands, but at the age of 40, I returned to drawing and painting full time. I haven’t looked back since.
