Meighan Morrison

"I devolved over the years from early portrait and figure work to eventually being very focused on composition - arranging simple, bold shapes void of subject and context within a limited palette. When occasional "entities" began popping up in my paintings I initially rejected them - returning to anything representational felt like going backwards.

But they kept wanting to come through. They've been referred to as souls, creatures, beings and aliens. I like how they seem to commune and communicate with each other and with us from environments that seem both foreign and familiar, primitive and projected. There's a Welsh word that I really like: Hiraeth n. (Welsh) A spiritual longing for a home which maybe never was. Nostalgia for ancient places to which we cannot return. It is the echo of the lost places of our soul's past and our grief for them. It is in the wind, and the rocks, and the waves. It is nowhere and it is everywhere."

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