Kristen Brown

Quiet Corners, Oil Painting

2025

Artist Comments
This painting captures a quiet, everyday scene of a worn wooden table, an empty chair stacked with newspapers, and a casually discarded soda can. The muted color palette and soft lighting evoke a sense of nostalgia, as if the moment is frozen in time. The partial figure on the left suggests a human presence, yet the composition emphasizes absence and stillness, inviting contemplation on routine, solitude, and the passage of time.

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: nostalgia, domestic, interior, table, furniture, newspaper, soda can, chair, arm, neutral, still life, modern , oil painting, beige

Quiet Corners
Kristen Brown
Oil painting on stretched linen
Finished white edges
Ready to hang
One-of-a-kind
Signed on back
2025
14 in. h x 11 in. w x .75 in. d
0 lbs. 8 oz.