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Brown invites the individual to tap into his/her own imagination: through the creation of compelling images, achieved by utilizing materials that possess unusual structural and textural qualities.  Color and atmosphere permeate his works and are essential participants in his visual expression of multidimensionality, the sub-microscopic dimension of physics and the macro expanse of the cosmos: planets, nebulas and galaxies. He imagines that in a fractal sense we are to our planet as the cells in our body are to us, and similarly the planets in our solar system are to the galaxy, galaxy to universe, and so on.  He entertains a theory of God as awareness in the sub-molecular sphere and conjectures that super strings communicate in the sub-molecular sphere resulting in karmic ripples in the reality pool of our dimension.

Brown’s worldview was altered by a life-changing experience in 1991.  Subsequently, he found himself more aware and interested in nature’s minute details, almost as though seeing the world with clearer vision.  This new awareness led to sculptural creations in mixed media and found objects similar to “Arte Povero”. (Poverty Art)  He found himself drawn to working with overlooked items, materials forgotten, neglected and/or effected by time, the elements and circumstance, favorites being: copper, rusting metal and driftwood; binding these components together with wire, nails or staples.  Artistic creation had become his celebration of life.

Brown has attended several monotype workshops, including a summer 2004 workshop, in Florence, Italy all orchestrated by master artist/printmaker Ruth Weisberg. Brown’s enthusiasm about monotype echoes the art of his grandfather, Frederick Foster Brown a well-known Western printmaker.