NORMAN BROWNE

    Throughout his career in the fine arts, Norman Browne has consistently used organic forms in his visual imagery. Most of his concern has been with texture, color and detail in fairly flat, plain space, though he occasionally portrays deep space in his work.
    As an avid fly fisherman, he derives his fish forms mostly from the streams in Montana, the Chama, New Mexico area and the central Texas Hill Country. His favored drawing medium is scratchboard, but in painting he generally works in gouache, watercolor and acrylic.
    His current works shows this intense interest, as he created fish and insects by combining metallic leaf with acrylic, overpainting on clayboard, which he has incised intricately to produce a textured relief to his paintings.