Dianne Brown-Green: Familial Waters

Dianne Brown-Green: Familial Waters

Friday, August 30, 2024 – Sunday, October 20, 2024

Latcham Art Centre – 2 Park Drive

Dianne Brown-Green‘s artistic journey has been profoundly influenced by her family, the environment, her Indigenous heritage, and cultural beliefs. Water has a consistent presence in her painting, appearing as literal shorelines or pools of colour that allow her subjects to float among one another. For Familial Waters, the artist presents a series of bold paintings in the Woodland style that reveal the entanglement of all these things, reflecting on memories of her family in nature – especially Algonquin Park and Manitoulin Island – and teachings passed down from her elders. Paired with a series of short videos in the artist’s studio that offer details about her influences and inspirations, Brown-Green‘s exhibition in Stouffville captures our interdependent relationship with our surroundings, a theme that has sustained her career for almost twenty years. 

Image: Installation view of Familial Waters. Image courtesy of Dennis Hristovski.