Exploring Gardens Through Art

As a painter of gardens for over 40 years, Meg Black, PhD, will share her creative process and the artists whose work she references for inspiration. Historical examples include Berte Morisot, Vincent Van Gogh, Maria Van Oosterwijck, and Claude Monet, along with contemporary artists whose subject of botanicals continues this ancient tradition. Meg will bring actual examples of her garden paintings, as well as the raw fibers she uses to create her colorful and textured paintings that capture the essence of garden life.
Meg Black grew up spending lots of time outside, and this gave her an appreciation for nature: the emotional pull nature has on us, the organic shapes, splashes of colors, earthy smells, and a bounty of textures; the magic of it all. She says, “It is no wonder my paintings imitate the experience of being outside by recapturing the colors and textures of nature. I compose my paintings so the viewer is able to wander into the distance and experience nature for themselves. In this way, they complete the story as they discover what lies beneath the painting’s surface.”
Meg Black’s studio and gallery is in Topsfield, MA.

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