Charlotte Brisland

Charlotte is a British painter based in Wales. She graduated from the Royal College of Art and is currently a lecturer in Fine Art at Aberystwyth University. 

Her 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. 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.