Judith Brannen

Artist Statement I am interested in the dynamic between 'the outward expression of the inward life'. Life's circumstances are powerful; sometimes I find myself investing heavily in the inward life, and then it seems that there must be a corresponding creative outflow. The two facets work in tandem, like riding a bicycle- to go forward, you have to push one pedal and then the other. My work emerges like thoughts; seemingly unrelated images come together to form something new- a visual relating of the changeling nature of an emergent person in a changing world. It seems I'm always stretching in frustration to find the best way to capture this; in oil, watercolour or words. The work becomes an icon, a point of reflection in the space/time dilemma of this reality.

Biography Judith Brannen grew up in New Brunswick and graduated from the New Brunswick College of Craft and Design with a Major in Weaving and a Minor in Pottery. While raising a family, she and her husband worked as studio craftsmen for 20 years and exhibited and sold their work all over North America and in Japan. In the mid-nineties, an epiphany led Judith to begin painting. In 2004 she began studying theology at St. Stephen's University. She also sits on the Board of Governors at SSU.

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