Records
This one started with a very intentional colour palette. A dark sky with highly and warmly lit up scenery gives me the sense of oncoming storm activity. The airborne ‘clams’ appear as explorers of new territory. Over the last year, with the threats to our country’s sovereignty, and our own country’s move away from environmental protection and First Nation’s consultation, I have often had the thought, ‘can the aliens save us now’? Which was on the naming list for this painting. I chose “Records” though as a reference to fossil records, and the layers of history discoverable all around us.
$3,600.00
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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