This is a timeline of becoming.
Each collection below marks a shift in her energy, identity, and understanding of what it means to create as a disabled artist. This page gathers the milestones of that journey.
It's the story of how energy, constraint, and adaptation shaped the language Brogan now paints in:
A body in dialogue with paint
Art is the rhythm of her being: gesture as breath, colour as pulse.
Painting Out Loud - Brogan Learns to Speak in Colour
Brogan’s instincts were visible early: the beginnings of a lifelong fascination with layering, texture, and physical engagement with the page. In a world of words, paint did the speaking.
The Rebel Phase — Faces, Forms, and First Experiments
Her college years were a playground of faces, forms, and fearless experimentation. Each piece tested convention, each material opened a new world - and at the heart of it all, the human body emerged as her guide.
Halting the Usual: creating in fragments of time
Here Brogan's art was not about momentum for its own sake. It was about what happens when momentum stops. When the body intervenes. When time stretches. When silence forces new kinds of listening.
Adapted Practice: Shed Summer
In a small shed, art became both experiment and escape. Surrounded by space and quiet, Brogan fought back with colour and restless forms. Finding freedom in the making, she created with abandon.
Brogan Leans in: Acceptance
Here, muted colour and layered surfaces reflect a more measured rhythm - paintings developed across sittings rather than in single bursts.
Brogan began to accept the limits imposed by her body and, crucially, to see them not as barriers but as frameworks for growth. She leaned into support, inviting others to help with physical tasks such as canvas preparation.
With her focus turned toward refinement (texture, brushwork, and the steady strengthening of her visual voice) her art began to breathe differently. Slower, more deliberate, yet full of quiet power.
She is reaching outward again: painting boldly, thinking bigger, and inviting others into her process. This is Brogan stepping beyond the limits of space and circumstance. She’s testing what’s possible: scaling up, taking up space, and transforming recovery into momentum. Each piece reflects both technical mastery and the energy of a vision stretching further than ever before.
Each collection on this page reflects a phase of Brogan's creative surge and recovery: moments when the act of painting or sculpting became a mirror, a lifeline, and a recalibration of self.