At 58 years old and after more than 35 years as a nonprofit executive and management consultant, Maryland-based artist Matt Brown traded in his phone and computer for brushes and an easel. With some strong but modest academic training in drawing and painting as a teen and young adult, Matt has embraced an abstract expressionist method and practice that focuses on intense color fields and that emphasize Matt’s personal, immediate emotional and spiritual feelings. As Matt puts it: 

For me, all art forms are an attempt to draw out an emotional response from the artist, the viewer, listener, reader, etc. Art provides the opportunity for both the artist and the viewer to share in the deeper reality. Color, shape, form, light and texture are all tools I use to evoke an emotional response in myself from both the process of painting and in the completed work. If others can share in that, all the better.