About
Brittany is an artist, designer, landscape architect based in Philadelphia. Her work combines 15+ years of painting in classical and Impressionist art, a love of botanical and geological abnormality, formal training in architecture, and professional practice in landscape architecture. She explores various media – from oil painting, to ink and graphite – working at all scales.
Living in urban metropolises around the globe, where nature is often manufactured and confined to curated landscapes, Brittany has developed a heightened appreciation for the raw, unfiltered power of Mother Nature. In her work, she magnifies the hidden beauty of nature’s most mundane elements—like a solitary leaf or an unassuming flower—transforming them into evocative subjects that celebrate the power of life. These forms invite the viewer to see flora not just as plants, but as embodiments of femininity—graceful, resilient, and complex. Her work evokes both the delicate softness of a flower and its robust, life-giving force, blurring the line between flora and the human body.
Through abstraction and exaggerated scale, Brittany reimagines these forms, turning them into dynamic, sensual shapes. Petals unfurl like skin, leaves curl with the fluidity of the human body, and stems twist into sinuous lines. Color, shaped by her experience with color blindness, plays a transformative role. The reds, blues, and yellows she uses shift the natural palette into something unexpected—dissonant yet striking. This "offness" creates a new visual language, inviting fresh engagement with the subject and offering an alternative perspective on both nature and the female body.
Brittany’s paintings reflect the power and resilience of Mother Nature, whose perfect imperfection continually creates and adapts to ever-changing conditions. Working on large canvases, she immerses the viewer in this cycle of survival and regeneration, transforming the mundane into something deeply intimate and evocative. In this space, nature is not simply reproduced; it is reconstructed—inviting an open-ended dialogue about femininity, identity, and the enduring power of life.
upcoming & past exhibitions
Annual Juried Show | December 2, 2021 - January 2, 2022
State of the Art Gallery, Ithaca, NY
Featuring ‘canna phasion’
Art of the Flower | June 6 - June 26, 2022
Philadelphia Sketch Club, Philadelphia, PA
Featuring ‘chrysanthemum’ and ‘hydrangea nikko blue’
“Colors” International Art Exhibition | January 2022
Art Room Gallery
Featuring ‘canna phasion’
Breaking Ground: Art about the Earth | February 10 - April 23, 2023
Annmarie Sculpture Garden & Arts Center, Soloman, MD
Featuring ‘memoires of polders’
Works on Paper | January 5 - January 26, 2025
Philadelphia Sketch Club, Philadelphia, PA
Featuring ‘duomo’ and ‘casted’