(Trees in bloom)

Elizabeth Christie Austen-Brown

There is little substantial information to be found about Elizabeth Christie Austen-Brown or her artist husband Thomas Austen-Brown. It is known that they studied the Japanese woodblock printmaking process with Frank Morley Fletcher around 1920.

Her prints, like Fletcher's, tend to have saturated, subdued color, her work had even been described as being "drab". She appears to have preferred depicting landscapes during changes in the light of day, sunset or overcast sky, allowing the composition to glow on its own, with no direct source of light.

Austen-Brown's prints were printed with a baren and impressions, when multiples can be found, tend to vary in color, more like monoprints.