Charlotte Brisland is a British painter living and working in the UK. Brisland graduated with an MA in Fine Art from the Royal College of Art in 2004 and is currently a lecturer in Fine Art (Painting) at the School of Art at Aberystwyth University. She has exhibited in group and solo exhibitions, nationally and internationally, including in Japan, New York, London, and Berlin. She has won several prizes, including the prestigious Jackson’s Painting Prize in 2018 and most recently, the Beep Painting Prize, in 2024.

Charlotte Brisland’s compositions serve as portraits of solitude and unsettling isolation. Each focal point – whether a tree or a house – appears alone in the landscape, unpeopled and quiet. Drawn from ordinary life and intensified by a saturated palette with surreal elements, the applied motifs of house, tree, and landscape, engage with Freud’s concept of the uncanny, shifting between familiarity and unease. This psychological approach reveals how trauma reshapes perception, making ordinary experiences feel both familiar and strangely altered, as repressed emotions surface through hue and shifting forms.

Brisland reimagines the fluidity of paint through historical techniques and direct surface manipulation, using each canvas as a space for a deeply personal yet ever-evolving exploration of the uncanny through colour.