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Meagan Lenover
Overcast Willows
Honourable Mention
April 2010
Oil on birch
16X24 landscape orientation
$935
The delicateness of the subject and the movement in this work is a
reference to chinese landscape paintings. The paint in this work was
applied dry resulting in a matte finish: the trees stand out having
been painted fat. Far from being monochromatic, the sky and horizon
are actually glowing clouds full of varied hues, against which the
menacing subjects of the trees and fowl are cast. The fine willow
switches almost melt from the sharp and irregular branches. All this
happens above the dull human scene below and the circling of the birds
together with the complexity of the treetop draws the observer upward
into the massive space of the backlit atmosphere like an inverted
vortex. The defining element of this composition is flow.
Looking off Steen Road at McLarty Line in July, 2007
May 2010
Oil on birch
16X24 landscape orientation
$935
An everyday scene in Chatham-Kent, Ontario captured unceremoniously in
a snapshot rendered in the realist style. The near and far boundaries
of human roads and treelines enclose a wheat field, but the subect of
the work is the weedy, interstitial vegetation most obvious to the
pedestrian observer. The blandness of the formal land-use is overtaken
by the movement and complexity of the incidental inhabitants of this
wayside space, which has been painted with brush, pencil, and sticks.
Bunny in the Brambles
June 2010
Oil on birch
16X24 landscape orientation
$935
Based on a randomly-composed snapshot of a young boy following several
rabbits into a thicket of blackberries to the side of the municipal
park path, this study considers realist ideals. The framing of the
image is intended to convey the everyday nature of life and the
impenetrable chaos that is only a few steps from our well-tended
environments. This painting was executed crudely, with sticks and
fingers, and ill-mannered use of brush, to mirror the curiosity of the
boy with the wild patch of a domestic landscape which this curiosity
propels him into. The "wildlife" he is chasing is itself very tame and
domesticated, just as the subject of this painting, a centrally framed
image of a lovable child, is easily palatable.
Meagan JoAnn Lenover is a Vancouver-based artist born and raised in
Chatham-Kent, near Ridgetown. After studying at Emily Carr University
between 2003 and 2006, she explored rural British Columbia for several
years, and now resides in central Vancouver. Meagan focuses on oil
paintings. She employs traditional materials and techniques including
walnut oil paint and hide glue gesso. These paintings were all
executed in one layer in one drying session. Meagan prefers subjects
and compositions which are not forced into spectacular obviousness,
and has a command of depth which makes her works easy to appreciate.
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