Mixed Markers
Anchoring so much of the imagery I paint are mountains. I have seen the mountains nearly every day of my life, they were the first thing I remember drawing, and combined with the ocean, which I came to later, create the perfect conditions for colourful magic. Mountains are forgiving, comfortable in endless shapes. Leaving a painter free to explore the edges of the colours and patterns that meet.
This particular scene is directly inspired by the shockingly beautiful mountain view that reveals itself when we go north from the Sunshine Coast towards Desolation Sound and come around Sarah Point. Pure drama! They were here before us and will be here long after.
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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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