Cathryn Elizabeth Brown
Virginia
 
Cathryn Elizabeth Brown, MLA, was born along the Hudson in Troy, New York.
Formally trained as a printmaker, potter, nurseryman and landscape architect, Brown finds inspiration in cyclic and naturally occurring designs and patterns. Her formal education path has been tempered with exploration, respect and curiosity of the natural world’s character. She feels passionately that she should be a steward to protect and restore the environment. Brown wants her life on earth to mean something so she seeks to develop sustainable solutions to improve the quality of the environment. Working now in design build, she now conceives, develops and constructs site specific work by utilizing natural and man made materials within each landscape. By allowing the site to reveal what is important, intrinsic and logical to its character, many things such as climate, topography, social needs, soils, watershed, hardscape and plant materials become part of the equation to aid in construction of useful livable landscapes.

Get Lost

This maze of native grasses blends in so well with the other grasses of this meadow, maybe you can't even see it right now, because it takes its own time to really be there. It is a metaphor of feeling and of being lost inside yourself. So let yourself go in and get lost and hopefully you will find something there.
Eventually, maybe three years, the grasses will form 7 to 9 foot dense walls to make the getting lost a little easier. Brown chose native plants that can suit a site, persist and thrive.

She has found that when she is terribly lost or frightened everything becomes clearer and what’s important is realized and decisions and discoveries can be found. Perhaps at full size folks will see the beauty within and be curious and let themselves become lost.