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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, these motifs 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.
Charlotte Brisland graduated from the Royal College of Art in 2004 and has exhibited in London, New York, Japan and Berlin. Her paintings appear in museums and private collections and have won several awards including the category award for landscape painting in the Jackson's Painting Prize 2018 and most recently won first prize in the Beep Painting Prize 2024. The paintings have been featured in several publications, Floorr magazine, Create and Friend of the artist. Charlotte currently lives in Wales and lectures at the School of Art, Aberystwyth University in Fine Art Painting.
