Charlotte Brisland

Charlotte Brisland graduated from the Royal College of Art in 2004 and has exhibited internationally. She now lives and works as a Fine Art lecturer in painting in the UK.


Artist Statement

The compositions act as portraits of solitude and isolation. Each singular object of focus—a tree or a house—is alone in a landscape. Unpeopled and waiting, the motifs are from ordinary life and portray the everyday, ignored, or assumed objects of the vernacular. The paintings hang on Freud’s text of the uncanny and play with layers of perception, which he describes and analyzes. The perceptions following trauma are relatable, ordinary, and human. Exploring this in paint is an ongoing and fascinating investigation. Color and form reroute and metamorphosize in endless and alternative ways. Sometimes engaging with historical painting applications or playing directly on the surface, the paintings become an arena to reimagine and engage with how paint is unpredictable. Each painting is a whole journey—deeply personal, a repetition of the same, and constantly changing over and over.


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