Welcome
Meet Cara
I am obsessed by color. I am a sucker for the drama of striking light. I keep being drawn to the lush fullness of fruit. I’m soothed by looking at flowers. I think food can be as beautiful as anything else. I want only the simplicity of watercolor – painting pure pigment on cotton paper. I love to make these paintings.

podcast
Watercolor Conversations
For four years I faithfully wrote weekly journal entries for my blog. Now and then I go back to what I’ve written and think that some of this huge body of content could be given new life – but the impulse was to use my speaking voice this go-round.
Watercolor Conversations with Cara Brown is the result. I am re-visiting some of these journal entries – sharing the stories, seeking, and inspiration in my written words – along with whatever else occurs to me to say at this point in time.

art stories
Journal
November 1, 2016 – Touched by the Sun – on permission and risk
The painting I named after Carly Simon's song - Touched by the Sun These past few weeks, I’ve been asked to take a closer - and more gutsy - look at my work and the impact that it has. The effect is that I’m suffering a big attack of “just who do you think you are?”...
October 25, 2016 – Your visual voice
A Google images search for my work reveals these images ... I sure do love color! I’ve had another morning, feeling unclear about what to write about. I’m in the midst of a big inner tussle, about my work and my art and its purpose and mine. But it’s not time yet to...
October 18, 2016 – My other dad
"Bob and Evelyn looking jovial when they came to see me at the Healdsburg Art Festival several years ago." Joe woke me up sometime about three in the morning last Wednesday. “Dad is gone.” Crumpling into tears I got up to take a steamy shower to try to clear my head...














