Hi, I'm Megan
When I was 22 and didn’t know what I was doing with my life, my dad said that I was always happiest when I was making stuff. He was right. But when you make stuff, stuff begins to pile up around you. So what do you do twenty years later once you’ve filled your own house and your parents’ house and any friend who showed a speck of interest’s house with all your stuff? You make a website, that’s what. And you see if other people want to fill their house with your stuff.
About me
​I grew up in Newtown, Wellington and now live in Naenae, Te Awa Kairangi Lower Hutt. My artworks are inspired by the natural world around us, in all its weird and beautiful glory. I work in acrylic, watercolour and gouache.
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I was taught by Rob McLeod at Wellington High School in the 1990s and gained scholarship marks for Bursary painting in Year 13. I was then accepted into Massey University the first year they offered a Fine Arts degree but decided to complete my degree in English Literature instead.
Three children and a communications career later, as for many of us, lockdown made me stop and think about what I was missing and I began to paint again.
I work in the environment sector so I am acutely aware of our changing climate. My artworks are a call to see the beauty in a moment, and reminder of what we have worth fighting for. My use of colour inverts the everyday and challenges assumptions that what we see is all that’s there.