By Bonnie Gangelhoff

The Arizona-based painter once thought she would become a landscape artist, but enduring wind, heat, scorpions, and rattlesnakes while on location propelled her back into the studio. For subject matter, she regularly scours antique shops and also checks the Internet. Brown is currently working on a still life depicting an antique blow torch she purchased on eBay. “It has a really interesting shape and great colors,” she says. Mainly a self-taught artist, Brown also studied with Jean Chambers. She is represented by Mary Williams Fine Arts, Boulder, CO; Jane Hamilton Fine Art, Tucson, AZ; Tubac Center of the Arts, Tubac, AZ; and www.sydneybrownfineart.com.

Featured in “21 over 31” in November 2009