About The Artist

Bay Area artist Carol Jones Brown uses dynamic color as a springboard for her bright, bold paintings in acrylic or mixed media. Abstraction has been the recent trend in her work after years of teaching painting and drawing in several venues.
She has a BS degree in journalism and a teaching credential for adult school in fine art, crafts and communications. She taught at the Adobe Art center in Castro Valley, then more than 30 years for Hayward Adult School.

She attended Sacramento, CA. schools and graduated from the University of Oregon. She studied painting with numerous Bay Area and nationally-known artists in workshops, classes and critiques. She is a member of several active Bay Area art organizations. Her work has been shown widely in the Bay Area, in galleries in San Francisco, Sacramento, Carmel, and other California cities. Patrons have purchased her art for collections in the U.S., Europe, Japan and Australia. Other pieces are in the collections of Koret of California and Alameda County. She is currently showing in the Expressions Gallery in Berkeley, Marin Society of Artists, Valley Art, Walnut Creek; the Adobe Art Center in Castro Valley and other local venues.


My art is about bold, brilliant color and interesting shapes and textures, which can be read as abstract images or non objective expressions. I usually attack a canvas with vibrant or vividly contrasting colors in acrylic paint, dancing my brushes around in a challenging start. Sometimes I collage the surface with a variety of papers, fabrics or any materials which will coalesce into a surprise for me and, hopefully, for the viewer. My influences include Matisse, Kandinsky, Chagall, and Nikki de San Phalle, for the glorious colors of her outdoor sculptures.