Taryn Brown
Taryn Brown was born in Oliver, BC where she learned about painting from her grandmother at a young age. She graduated with a $1000 art scholarship and won the honour of having her art selected for the cover of the BCATA magazine. She then studied art history, literature and Hispanic studies and graduated from UVIC. She currently resides on Vancouver Island in beautiful British Columbia, Canada. She has been creating art her entire life, and emerged onto the art scene 15 years ago to exhibit in galleries. Some works are available at The Greater Victoria Art Gallery (AGGV), Gallery 8 on Salt Spring, and The Housse in Victoria, BC. She competes in juried shows (and won The Award of Excellence) at the Federation of Canadian Artists on Granville Island in Vancouver. Her first online release was in March 2021, and it was a success! This led her to a second successful online show with Kelly Hopter Interiors. Now she is working directly with designers on great projects and booking more gallery shows. Follow her on Instagram @tarynbrownart for more show details. Taryn has collections across Canada and the U.S., in the UK, Switzerland, Australia and Taiwan.
Her process:
Taryn’s surrealist multidisciplinary artworks are compositional and textural explorations of line and form. Her textured works play with the push and pull of contrasts: light vs shadow, 2 dimensional vs 3 dimensional, minimalism vs maximalism, asymmetry vs symmetry . She is inspired by the complementary movements of Purism and Japandi and is interested in textural storytelling that resonates with the unconscious; our entire existence is the story we tell ourselves. Why not tell a blissful one?
Light and shadow are opposite sides of the same coin. We can illuminate our paths or darken our way. It is a matter of choice. - Maya Angelou
