Seeking Still Point
This one started with a solid brick red base layer. Mostly due to the fact that I have a large amount of red oxide, inherited from my friend Rick, a painter and good friend who died this past year. He left his paint to his friends, and he bought in large quantities due to large, juicy paintings. It’s actually a great way to remember him. I marvel at the surface of water and realize I am not alone in trying to paint it. I planned a palette of the warmest colours, wanting to explore the idea of a fire palette within a painting of water. For a while this was on the brink of being a non-representational abstract, however my brain craved order! And I worked in the coastline in the upper third, introducing logs, rocks and the suggestion of forest beyond.
$7,600.00
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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