May, 2026
Featured Artist 

Nadya Brown was born and raised in England. She has since lived in Italy and Spain, and now lives in Santa Barbara, California. Extensive travel in Europe, SE Asia and Mexico, plus living and working in different cultures provides the inspiration for much of the subject matter of her prints and paintings. Nadya has exhibited work in group and solo exhibitions since the 1960s both in the United States and in the UK. She studied Painting & Printmaking at Goldsmiths College, University of London, and received her MFA from Ohio University. She has since taught at various colleges and universities in the US.

“I have increasingly taken note of the changes and damage to our environment, due to either pollution or climate change. As I live near the ocean this has become the focus of these changes, both seen or unseen. The food chain starts right at the bottom with microscopic organisms. I became interested in their importance, complexity and fragility. Specifically, the project I subsequently assigned myself was a series of reduction linocuts that interpreted images of some invertebrates that reflected my interest in intricate shape and elegant composition. The colors I chose seemed to reflect those shapes.”

— Nadya Brown

website: nadyabrownart.com