Abbey Brown

My painting practice explores nostalgia and everyday life including the concepts of growing up, feminine identity, and domesticity. Derived from personal photo archives, my work documents the everyday and relives childhood moments. I am interested in painting scenes centred around people that are intimate, warm, and inhabited. Colour, framing, and paint application are used to reconstruct photos and distant memories that both emerge out of and activate the familiar home environment. I am drawn to the liveliness, sincere mess, and domesticity of interior settings, an informative space for growing up and discovering a sense of identity and belonging. Home is where the complexities of domestic and family life happen and the shift between youth and adulthood. The compositions depict familiar lived experiences and the more effervescent aspects of daily life. There is a comfort in revisiting the familiar warmth of these memories. Prominent influences have been the works of Intimism and Impressionist painters. Through painting, I wish to foreground mundane moments and explore the conflation of art and life.