Audrey Brown has been a working artist for over 20 years. After receiving her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Augustana College in Rock Island, Illinois, Ms. Brown began combining her academic education with her long love and experience exploring the natural world around her to create her pastel landscapes. She has since changed to oil as her medium of choice. During the course of her art career Audrey Brown has been the recipient of several awards in both juried exhibits and art fairs throughout the mid-west. Ms. Brown has been chosen to participate in many of the mid-west's prestigious art fairs from Minneapolis, Minnesota to Kansas City, Missouri. "I approach landscape painting as a process of combining materials, time and thought. Before the painting becomes physical, the process starts with an exploration of place, and time. That exploration is sometimes done over a series of visits during different seasons. This allows me to understand how time of day and weather effect a specific location. River and streams move me, as well as the connection between land and sky. Even though most of my paintings are from locations within a 3-hour drive of my home, creating the painting allows me to spend hours at a time at the location that has become my subject, without leaving my studio."