Matt Brown graduated from college in 1981 hoping to work with his hands. By 1985 he was in full gear, running his own building contracting business doing new house construction, renovations and additions, post and beam barns. In 1987 Matt built a three-story shop where he completed numerous kitchens and other cabinetry. This is the building where he now makes his woodblock prints.
His printmaking career owes much to those years of building. Learning to work with wood, to line things up and judge by eye, to draw up plans and implement them into 3 dimensions: this was his printmaking apprenticeship. His materials are now pigments, carved woodblocks, and paper, his pursuit is with line, shape and color; but it still feels like the same process of visualizing something, analyzing it into parts and then putting hand to tool to make a thing.
Matt lives and works in Lyme, New Hampshire.
To view Matt’s artwork, click here.