TRAVELOGUES SERIES (2022-present)
Like many artists, Brown is inspired by her travels away from home—both to new locations and familiar places. Travelogues captures these experiences. While she often travels with art materials and paints on site, she also uses photographs as inspiration when she returns to her studio. These on-site paintings combine with photographs and impressions to create abstract works that are redolent of the soul of each place.
A selection of works from this series are below.
Travelogues: Black Mountain, egg tempera on panel, 2025. Framed size: 17.375" L x 13.25" W. Maren Brown, artist. Photo credit: Jim Gipe, Pivot Media. Winner of Best in Show award at the James Library and Center for the Arts, 2025. Juror: Allison Rudnick, Associate Curator, Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Carmel: Casting to the Wind, acrylic on panel, 2025. Framed size: 13" L x 10" W. Maren Brown, artist. Photo credit: Jim Gipe, Pivot Media.
Travelogues: Costa Rica 2, egg tempera and gold leaf on panel, 2023, Framed size: 17.625" L x 21.625" W. Maren Brown, artist. Photo credit: Jim Gipe, Pivot Media.
Travelogues: Boulder, Egg Tempera on Panel, 2022, Framed size: 10" L x 13" W. Maren Brown, artist. Photo credit: Jim Gipe, Pivot Media.
Travelogues: Carmel-Behind the Veil, Acrylic on panel, 2024, Framed size: 13" L x 10" W. Maren Brown, artist. Photo credit: Jim Gipe, Pivot Media.
Travelogues: New Hampshire, egg tempera on panel, 2022. Framed size: 12" L x 15" W. Maren Brown, artist. Photo credit: Jim Gipe, Pivot Media.
Travelogues: Lake George, egg tempera on panel, 2022. Framed size: 10" L x 13" W. Maren Brown, artist. Photo credit: Jim Gipe, Pivot Media.