A native Colorado artist, Gordon Brown, has been professionally
painting for 30 years. His paintings characteristically highlight his
ability to romanticize atmospheric elements; dawn, twilight,
clouds, storms, haze, and fog. These elements act as abstractions
within his compositions. With a passion for pulsating
natural beauty—both moody and atmospheric—dominating his
paintings, there is only an occasional glimpse of that “blue
sky.” Crashing surf, passing storms, and vivid sunlit vistas set
off by a ceiling of shadowy, moody heavens that are populated
by wispy clouds—all are signature elements of a Gordon
Brown landscape. Growing up near the Grand Mesa of Colorado
has no doubt seeped into Brown’s æsthetic and artistic
vision, working as a compass to guide his initial responses to
painting.
Brown freely admits, “I borrowed from the old masters, the
modern masters, and every artist I know. I'm always experimenting,
occasionally destroying and not worrying if it will work
or not; being childlike, that’s how I approach painting.” This
unwavering commitment to diversity—testing his limits and
looking for more ways to interpret on canvas what he sees—has
kept Brown’s work fresh and ever-evolving. In his short career
of nearly thirty years, Gordon Brown has carved a solid niche
for himself as a “new” old master of the luminous landscape.
Brown has recently developed new techniques to alter his
surface texture, specifically in his abs tract paintings. He utilizes
masonite board or aluminum sheets as rigid substrates so that
he can scratch into the built-up layers of paint.
A native Colorado artist, Gordon Brown, has been professionally
painting for 30 years. His paintings characteristically highlight his
ability to romanticize atmospheric elements; dawn, twilight,
clouds, storms, haze, and fog. These elements act as abstractions
within his compositions. With a passion for pulsating
natural beauty—both moody and atmospheric—dominating his
paintings, there is only an occasional glimpse of that “blue
sky.” Crashing surf, passing storms, and vivid sunlit vistas set
off by a ceiling of shadowy, moody heavens that are populated
by wispy clouds—all are signature elements of a Gordon
Brown landscape. Growing up near the Grand Mesa of Colorado
has no doubt seeped into Brown’s æsthetic and artistic
vision, working as a compass to guide his initial responses to
painting.
Brown freely admits, “I borrowed from the old masters, the
modern masters, and every artist I know. I'm always experimenting,
occasionally destroying and not worrying if it will work
or not; being childlike, that’s how I approach painting.” This
unwavering commitment to diversity—testing his limits and
looking for more ways to interpret on canvas what he sees—has
kept Brown’s work fresh and ever-evolving. In his short career
of nearly thirty years, Gordon Brown has carved a solid niche
for himself as a “new” old master of the luminous landscape.
Brown has recently developed new techniques to alter his
surface texture, specifically in his abs tract paintings. He utilizes
masonite board or aluminum sheets as rigid substrates so that
he can scratch into the built-up layers of paint.