Kristen Brown

Good Girls, Oil Painting

2025

Artist Comments
A child stands alone in a quiet, dimly lit interior. She cradles a flame in her hands with its warm glow illuminating her face. The composition evokes themes of memory, transformation, and quiet resilience. It invites viewers to consider the weight of what we carry and the light we choose to protect.

About the Artist
Artist Kristen Brown sheds light on the fragility of memories with her dreamlike portraits. Kristen uses her knowledge of photography to create motion blur, distortion and multiple exposures in her oil paintings, overlapping figures, landscapes and cityscapes. The models in her paintings are referenced from people close to her, and the locations are significant places from various time periods throughout her life. "I will often use multiple places or time periods in a painting to illustrate the idea of being taken back into a past moment from a current one, or the idea of the past and present feeling as though they are happening simultaneously," she explains. In the rare cases when she is not painting, you can find her printmaking, dabbling in ceramics, traveling, playing guitar or meditating. Kristen graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Saskatchewan in Canada and a Master of Fine Arts from the Academy of Art University in San Francisco, CA.

Words that describe this painting: figure, portrait, girl, child, people, contemporary, oil painting, blue

Good Girls
Kristen Brown
Oil painting on wood
Natural wood edges
Varnished and Ready to hang
One-of-a-kind
Signed on back
2025
10 in. h x 10 in. w x 2 in. d
0 lbs. 12 oz.