Corridor
A row of wooden structures provides an entry point to the landscape stretching beyond, but also a sort of fence separating us from the view. One of the doorways appears to be open, possibly creating a corridor. Moving away from natural landscape colours into a dark magenta and bright lilac hues brings distinctly northern in feel, with no trees and snowy peak in the distance.. The structures have a vague quality, they might be small homes, outhouse, boat houses. Recently we were in a harbour with more boat houses than I've ever seen, and I reflected on the fact that these boats have houses while many people don't. Other harbours we visited like Maple Cowichan Bays on Vancouver Island we visited had communities of float homes, which were super charming and worthy of their own series of paintings.
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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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