Softbank
I found a nice interplay here between warm olive greens and deep violets, and high contrast from deep teal to nearly white. The mountain and stump forms start to blend together, bringing the scale into question, which is something I enjoy. A scene that starts to lose its sense of reason the longer you look. A small patch of starry sky is set behind a deep dark teal colour field which almost suggests a sky visible from underwater, shifting the point of view. I love the look of collage, and like to mix paint application styles and masking to achieve the look of collage in paint. Man-made structures appear here, merging with the quilting theme.
$4,600.00
Meghan Hildebrand
Meghan Hildebrand's paintings invite the viewer to get lost in worlds with few boundaries. Within dreamlike explorations of real and imagined landscapes, colours and forms are built up intuitively. Experimentation and spontaneous mark-making lend raw energy to the paintings. Drawing from environmental observation, painterly invention, and the inclusion of a wide vocabulary of visual symbols, unexpected breakthroughs keep Hildebrand in a constant process of reinvention, and her work ever-changing. Trees, tents, bottle shapes and colour-coded dots can represent community or industry, while anthropomorphized forms return the gaze of the viewer. A distorted sense of scale lends a magical quality to her work, creating scenes that tend to lose their logic the longer you look, inviting new translations.
“Meghan is very much aware of the structure of painting in terms of space and colour, moving with confidence between the abstraction of surface and the illusion of depth embodied in the work to serve the lively content. She accomplishes this with fresh innovations for each work, and although her presence in undeniable, there is no sense of mere repetition but rather continuous expansion of symbolic ideas.” - Norman Yates
Originally from Whitehorse, Yukon, Meghan now resides on the Sunshine Coast of BC.
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