Megan Hinton - Painting
This is the first time I was able to attend Megan Hinton’s exhibit. I am sad to know that I have missed previous shows. Her work is rich, skilled, the colours exquisite, the textures delicious. It is almost as if she is experiencing a titanium chemical reaction in her brain. I have never seen such different colours show such similarity before nor have I ever wanted to eat a whole series of paintings. Sadly she left Ottawa as she was not at all visually stimulated, or as i describe it she was interfacing with an onslaught of aesthetic mediocrity. If you get the chance go and see this delightful display of work - reflections of her new home Cape Cod - which must be beautiful indeed. (btw - the pictures are no way near reflect the real pieces).
Meet and greet the artist during gallery hours: Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, 1-5 PM
My paintings lie in between the realms of figuration and abstraction. Each picture is a reaction to looking, but in the act of painting a transformation occurs that allows the image to move away from reality.Despite the figuration that can be seen in the work, i.e. landscape, human form, or still life, the expression is subtle. This approach allows the viewer to interpret the picture openly and complete the meaning based on a personal connection to the imagery. A sense of reality is present, but these pictures suggest a looseness of representation with the use of an unexpected color palette combined with noticeable brush and palette knife marks. Each work is intuitively linked and fused between figurative inclinations and the movement toward abstraction. This collection of work offers a range of interpretations since the paintings can be both abstract and representational, geometric and organic, formal and emotive, and expressionistic while maintaining the flatness of field painting.My goal while working is for the finished painting to present itself as a harmonious, simplified image with the authority to transform the viewer’s own pictorial experience.
