Tammy Brown is a Central Texas artist who paints primarily landscapes and nature themes. Her paintings tend toward a romanticized view of nature with lush greens, vivid flowers and atmospheric skies. She paints traditional oil paintings on canvas as well as paintings on non-traditional recycled surfaces like boxes, tea bags and metal compacts. These smaller pieces are meant to .be explored, handled and experienced in different ways. Tammy has studied painting and drawing with many artists and teachers in the US and Europe. Her work is often shown in galleries, restaurants, offices and businesses in Austin and other Central Texas communities.   As a psychotherapist, Tammy incorporates nature and creativity into the treatment of depression, anxiety and grief. She enjoys gardening, birding, traveling, spending time with her family and creating art with her grand children. Artisit's Statement: My roots tie me deeply to both wild and cultivated landscapes. I grew up in my mother’s gardens and the surrounding East Texas woods creating little worlds and objects with the plentiful raw materials such as flowers, sticks, red clay and rocks. Art and nature are intertwined for me and integral parts of me. My nature paintings feature lush greens, vivid flowers, light, shadow, and atmospheric skies. I paint traditional oil paintings on canvas with walnut based oils and no solvents. I paint in acrylic and gouache on non-traditional recycled surfaces like boxes, tea bags and metal compacts. In contrast to the framed canvases that hang statically on the wall, the non-traditional pieces are meant to .be explored, handled, experienced more intimately and displayed in changing ways. The more beauty we have in our lives, and the more intimacy we have with nature the healthier we are as human beings. Art can help us stay connected with nature and our own creative spirits.