Charlotte Brisland’s compositions serve as portraits of solitude and unsettling isolation. Each focal point – whether a tree or a house – appears alone in the landscape, unpeopled and quiet. Each canvas serves as a space for a deeply personal yet ever-evolving exploration of the uncanny through colour.
Drawn from ordinary life and intensified by a saturated palette with surreal elements, the applied motifs of house, tree, and landscape, engage with Freud’s concept of the uncanny, shifting between familiarity and unease. This psychological approach reveals how trauma reshapes perception, making ordinary experiences feel both familiar and strangely altered, as repressed emotions surface through hue and shifting forms.
