Brook Tremper
Brook Tremper is an independent artist and illustrator who began painting as an intimate way to explore the wilderness of the heart. Her watercolour and ink paintings become focal points that gently remind, invite, settle and excite the viewer into an awareness of their own conscious and subconscious relationship to nature, self and memory. She often works using small scale canvas, creating a sense of intimacy. Soft colour washes and lines flow in and out of recognizable forms while contradicting and blurring the boundaries between the abstract and physical world. Her works depict a mood that is now an object of nature, explored, held, felt, released and sometimes treasured by the viewer as evidence of the inner experience.
“This work touches me in a place I didn’t know I needed to see.”
-anonymous
“This one is me. This is my heart.”
-anonymous
Indeed, the beauty and lightness of her work hold a compelling and sometimes searingly painful openness. She is a champion for dismantling taboos around mental health through her own daily lived experiences.
Her work has been exhibited at the Smith College Art Museum, The Southwest School of Art and Craft and Mount Holyoke College Art Museum. She has studied with and learned from artists Leandro Soto, Jeannette MacDougall, Nathan Margalit, Joe Smith and Eric Carle.
Brook also taught Early Visual Literacy at the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art. Her illustration, ‘Hello’, depicting two people reaching across the landscape of a heart, was featured in Beyond Words Literary Magazine Issue 7, October 2020.
