Therese Brown

Therese has been working with photography and its related genres for over 30 years.  Starting with an old Canon AE1, taking photos of her kids it became her preferred method of creative expression.  Over the years she's worked with film, digital, more film, toy cameras, polaroids, pinholes and alternative processing and printing methods.  When not working with visual art you'll find her in the garden, tending plants that nourish and heal.  A Californian born and bred, she's currently residing in Richmond, VA.

I sometimes see in the real world...the light or the subject.  But sometimes the seeing is internal, a feeling, and what shape that takes in my mind's eye. The themes in my work that have emerged over time relate to my connection to the natural world and how I move through it, the vivid internal dialogue surrounding my experience as a human woman, and my connections to the past and future, in this lifetime and beyond.  As I age my ancestors have begun to also play into my work, in particular the women that came before me. 

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