Rebecca Spit
Rebecca Spit is an actual place, close to where I live, on Quadra Island. There a is magnificent point of land that helps corral in Herriot Bay. It is narrow with a trail down the middle and lovely beach on either side. It’s a park for all to enjoy. While coming into the harbour, we held back to let the ferry by, at which time a humpback whale emerged from the water at close range. Also, a pod of orca whales could be seen frolicking on the opposite side of the narrow entrance to the harbour. I thought, how can I be so fortunate to be here right now. Place names are interesting, I was thinking about how many of the English words for land features are often named for body parts, the mouth, the arm.
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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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