About

Antonia Brown is an artist working in acrylics and natural dyes based in Durham, North Carolina.

Her work as a farmer and her life as an artist blend together to create pieces that are steeped in community and connection. Through her art, she is able to emphasize the joy that she has worked to find and foster in her farm community. Antonia seeks to create heartening portraits of agrarian Southern life. The emphasis put on joy is not a self deception or willful ignorance of agriculture rather it is a way for the artist to process her past and create new pathways that allow for lightness.

Antonia is a self-taught artist and her background consists of an education in ecology and environmental work. She currently splits her time between painting and working on a small vegetable farm.