Marie-Therese Brown
Marie-Therese Brown’s paintings are plein air oil landscapes. The term plein air has been used since the nineteenth century to describe painting done outdoors. This approach to painting challenges me to capture a scene with its shifting patterns of light and color and changing atmospheric effects.
Marie-Therese loves the sport of plein air painting - pairing down her equipment, dressing for the weather, finding a good location, and getting set up. Sometimes, she completes a painting in the studio, and on occasion she develops larger paintings from studies done on location. The more she paints the more she appreciates the beauty and magnificence of color of the valley and the farmland surrounding us. When she ventures away from home, she takes her paints and gets to know places intimately that would otherwise fade from memory. Every painting has a story.
She taught art for many years beginning in Central America and ending with her recent retirement from Dixon High School. In 1995, the California Art Education Association selected her as the Outstanding Elementary Art Educator. She has studied with many artists and taken art courses at Mesa College, Universidad de las Americas in Mexico, San Diego State University, and the University of Florida. She has a B.A. in Spanish from the University of Florida and teaching credentials from the University of California, Davis.
