About

Aubrey Cleland is a self-taught abstract painter whose work begins with attention—watching how color exists in the world, how it shifts, softens, vibrates, and lands in the body. Her paintings are not pre-planned so much as discovered, built through a process of responding, adjusting, and allowing each piece to become what it wants to be.

Working primarily in acrylic, she explores the tension between instinct and control—where loose, intuitive movement meets moments of structure, restraint, and decision. Each painting develops through layers of color, subtraction, and refinement, guided less by concept and more by sensitivity to balance, weight, and feeling.

Her practice is rooted in translating perception into form: the challenge of taking something fleeting—a color in passing light, a tone that feels almost physical—and giving it presence on a surface. The result is work that feels both deliberate and alive, holding a quiet tension between clarity and ambiguity.

Aubrey lives and paints in Los Angeles with her Siamese cat, Simba, who is rarely far from the studio.