A solo exhibition by Perth based artist Joanna Brown of Laeline.

Sunday 15 November 4pm - 6pm

Support local Perth artists and swing by on to check it out – it’s FREE!

Stay on for eats at Bivs and book your spot.

Artist Statement- Joanna Brown

I am a digital artist and my subject matter is most often local botanical. It’s often about the walk to the highway, my neighbours plants, the change of seasons, the dance between the pushy and the unassuming plants, the natives and the imports, those you notice, those you don’t...

My process starts with digital studies of individual plant elements. Drawing digitally allows me to draw with light and build layers of transparency - all whilst illuminated by the back glow of the screen. From each detailed botanical study, I then combine and arrange my individual drawings in a process reminiscent of collage. During this second stage I’m seeing the plants as shapes, forms and colours. I try to uncover patterns, rhythms and hitherto unseen relationships by a shifting, deleting, mirroring and rotating process.

Artist Bio

East Fremantle based artist, illustrator, designer and mural artist, Joanna Brown has worked in many mediums during a long and varied career in the arts. Joanna studied visual arts and then art teaching at Curtin University before completing her Masters of Art Therapy at ECU. Her history includes amongst other things a 10-year stint as a textile designer in Fremantle at ‘Hustle’, a store on High Street. She currently operates a bespoke illustration based design practice along side her own developing art practice. Recently she has extended her botanical artwork into large scale murals for both the Cities of South Perth and Melville.