Wk8-Artist Conversation-Sienna Brown

Artist: Sienna Brown

Website: http://www.siennabrowneart.com

Instagram: @Siennabrowneart

Sienna Browne is an artist in her fourth year of the Drawing and Painting BFA program at California State University, Long Beach. A multimedia artist, Sienna uses sculpture, drawing, weaving, writing and painting to interpret her message. From listening to her presentation and visiting her website and Instagram I had more insight into her style of art and her story.

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Her early work from 2017 uses many lines and bright colors. Some of the pieces are puns. For example “Sushi Rolls”, “Fruit Flys”, and “Brain Freeze”. It conveys a fun attitude that makes it approachable art. A majority of her work is big canvases that portray a straightforward sight that is easy to identify what is painted. I enjoyed these because the work was bold and eye-catching with the purples, yellows, and reds it drew me to look longer.

During her 8 years of experience with creating art, she was able to channel her sub-conscience and her past relationship with food. From 2017 to 2018 she created pieces that she soon realized was a response to herself regarding her life. Struggling with an eating disorder for ten years is a huge part of her life that she was able to express through pieces about food puns. That was foreshadowing her new creations in 2018.

During that period she told her story through her pieces some were black and white others was colorful. She used many lines giving it many details and depth to its meaning. By showing the action of each that gave us an insight into her battle with an eating disorder. Sienna used oil, charcoal, and mixed media for many of her pieces from 2018. I know that working with oil paint or charcoal can be a challenge of its own since they can be difficult to work with and she can execute such clean work in her pieces that give them a rhythm to speak their message.

I paint too and that is why I appreciate her work as well as its message. As I am not an expert nor am I studying art I enjoy the process of creating my own and experiencing the emotion I put into the message. When I started painting in middle school up until now I would try to create one big piece or a very detailed medium size was my way of not losing my touch. Also seeing similar aesthetics we share is awesome. I enjoy using bright colors and painting with oil or acrylic, and sometimes mixed media