Honoria Brown’s work explores the intimate connection between automatic and conscious interpretation. Her paintings enact fleeting emotional scenes experienced in sleep and wakefulness, often combining elements of sexuality, form and anatomy. In this way, she captures the essence of her lucid dreams and nightmares and their insidious manifestation in her daily reality. 

Brown’s work invites the viewer to dance with deception, and to challenge their sense of reality. Her exploration of surrealist themes centres on sleep as a form of “creative dissociation”, testing the brain’s inherent ability to reassign interpretation and create “nonsense”. Brown's oil paintings serve as a medium to transcribe emotions and scenes from her dreams and nightmares, often taking the form of dark, murky landscapes where she invites chance in the waking details.

“Nothing is as it seems, and yet everything is exactly as it does. Depending on your outlook, everything we perceive is totally open to misinterpretation. This is the beauty of the human experience.”

(b. 1996, UK) Brown is a self-taught artist living and working in Bristol, UK.