HELLO YOU.
WELCOME TO THE STUDIO
It’s great to meet you.
My name’s Megan. I’m a self-taught artist currently based in Manchester, UK. I work predominantly in oils and acrylics, but occasionally I do also complete works in watercolour too.
The themes currently explored in my work originate from my time studying BA Hons English Literature at Leeds University. I’m particularly interested in examining the ways physical and psychological ‘landscapes’ can intersect to represent the complexities of lived experience.
As a starting point, I’m focussing on the transient and ephemeral state of nature, and how light and flux can be represented in my chosen mediums.
These photos are taken from West Studio’s ‘Emerging Artists’ 2023 exhibition.
The first time I’ve ever officially exhibited my work, and it was so much fun!
About the work
The world can feel a bit crazy sometimes, and we can feel alone facing life’s phases and challenges. But I believe that by looking to the natural world and exploring our relationship with other living things through art, we can find comfort in the knowledge that we belong.
We’re part of a living, breathing, ecosystem that is always changing and evolving. One that offers us many lessons to learn if we listen closely, and can offer a mirror or counterbalance to help us navigate our lived experience.
The natural world is at once tangible yet untouchable, enduring yet fleeting. Its elements are harsh and uncompromising at times, yet nourishing and life-giving at others. It’s this ability to exist wholly in a state of constant contradiction that has me endlessly inspired. It’s life, all life.
The rainstorms and the sunsets, the flowers and the thorns. I find myself spending hours mixing colours in an effort to replicate those effortlessly emerging in nature, and scrambling to capture a certain slant of light as it permeates a sky
- before it inevitably shifts and is lost.
I hope the work speaks to you and makes you feel seen.
