About
Brittany is an artist, designer, 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.
After living many years in the urban metropolis of New York City, Brittany’s appreciation for botany and more ecologically-complex landscapes has heightened. Her compositions portray a magnification of the natural environment and showcase the curiosity of flora and fauna.
Three themes appear in her work – abstraction, exaggeration, and scale. Brittany begins with inspiration from a single, insolated specie – an everyday flower or generic leaf. Then, she imagines the specie in a broader environment, where light, reflection, and shadow play critical roles in manipulating and breaking down the pure botanic forms into more dynamic subjects. The composition becomes less resembling of the specie and more a mosaic of color and shape.
Brittany expresses color through bold translation of hues. Her natural vision, compromised by a history of color blindness, results in an alternative communication of reds, blues, and purples. For this reason, components in Brittany’s work express a unique “offness” where pigmentation and placement mismatch the referenced subject to create something new and delightful. From composition and value to palette choice, she reinvents the natural, in order to deconstruct it into purer components of abstraction.
In her latest work, Brittany paints on large scale canvas, as it is a means of painting the subject 1:1 or even 2:1. This approach further aids her process of subject reconstruction. Painting at the scale of the body allows her to fully immerse herself into the fields and forms of the subject matter, building a stronger connection to the work.
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’