Class of 2018
Bobbie Brown
Visual Arts - Painter
Bobbie Brown, Visual Arts-Painting, has been a St. Charles resident since 1988. She is known nationally and internationally for her paintings, which are inspired by nature, and range from detailed realism to imaginative abstraction.
Brown achieved certification in home landscape horticulture and botanical art and illustration through the Morton Arboretum, and was an instructor there for 10 years.
Brown has been elected to membership in Allied Artists of America and the American Artists' Professional League. She is an active member of the Nature Artists' Guild of the Morton Arboretum and served as program chairman for several years. Brown is also former program chairman for the DuPage Art League.
Her work has been published in Today's Botanical Artists, The Colored Pencil Society of America's Signature Showcase, the American Society of Botanical Artists, and more. Paintings by Bobbie Brown are included in public and private collections throughout the United States, Great Britain and Japan, and she has donated art prints for Fox Valley Beaux Arts auctions to raise money for art student scholarships.