Charlotte Brisland is a British Contemporary Painter living and working in the UK. Brisland graduated from the Royal College of Art in 2004 and has exhibited internationally including Japan, New York, London and Berlin. Brisland has exhibited in group and solo exhibitions including the Barbican centre, London, 24 Stunden Neukolln, Berlin and Agora gallery in New York. During this time, she has won several prizes including Jackson’s painting prize, category seascape, and has been interviewed in magazines including Floorr, Create and friend of the artist. Charlotte Brisland currently lives and works in the UK as lecturer and painter.
The compositions act as portraits of solitude and isolation. Each singular object of focus; a tree or a house, is alone in a landscape. Unpeopled and waiting, the motifs are from ordinary life and portray the everyday, ignored or assumed objects of the vernacular. The paintings respond to elements of Freud’s text of the uncanny and play with layers of perception. The disconnection to the landscape following trauma is relatable, ordinary and human and this is the starting point and return of the decision-making process. Sometimes playing with historical painting applications, or playing directly on the surface, the paintings are an arena to re-imagine and engage with the plasticity of paint. Most recently working on washes of clear, part primed canvas, the paint is applied with a process of staining, pouring, thinned down pigment, which creates movement and breaks up the surface. The result is textural, and the pigments become brighter. The tension created by the startling, seducing colour and the disturbances within the compositions are a necessary push, pull of the double sidedness of beauty.