Heather Newton Brown

About the Artist

Heather Newton Brown (She/Her/They) is a Maine-raised encaustic artist currently living in unceded Wabanaki territory now known as Casco with her family.

As a young person, Heather was nearly always making things or taking them apart. In the studio, she strives to continue exploring the balance between deconstruction and construction, believing that art is the point when alchemy, inspiration, and vision collide. She is drawn to incorporating new and unexpected materials, makes her own encaustic paints, and is most energized when the strange starts feeling familiar and the familiar starts feeling strange. She believes art is alchemy. From the combination of forms, materials, and processes, something new is synthesized.