Meg Reilly
www.megreillyart.com
Northbay ArtWorks
7049 Redwood Blvd, Ste 208
Novato, CA 94945
415.516.3218
megreillyart@gmail.com
Northbay ArtWorks
7049 Redwood Blvd, Ste 208
Novato, CA 94945
415.516.3218
megreillyart@gmail.com
Artist Statement
My early formal arts training occurred in New York during the mashup of the 1960s-70s. We still studied the old masters, and some sought to replicate those styles as a test of our talent. At the same time, we were slinging paint at and sticking stuff to the canvas in the style of Jackson Pollack, Jasper Johns and their contemporaries. We experimented with all kinds of media, materials, applications and venues. I grew up on the masters, but in practice, was seeking all the abstractions and modern interpretations. It was a remarkable confluence of what we drew from the past, joining the fast flowing stream of movements and sub-movements those times produced. My Bachelors of Fine Arts degree from Syracuse University in 1972 is unique to its time. I was lucky enough to participate in the photography program within the Newhouse School of Public Communications at SU. There, I had the best of instructors, equipment and lab facilities.
That early training, coupled with 30 years of broad interests and experience, find me now with a free-ranging style. I paint, draw and photograph what pleases me - sometimes landscape, sometime impressionist, sometimes figurative, sometimes abstract. I've crossed over to digital photography, and find that my foundation in film and darkroom work influences how I use the camera. I prefer not to photoshop images.
I realize now that my earliest mentor was Grand Mother Carmichael. She was the blind, 90 something, grandmother of the pastor's family living across the street. We spent hours talking about art. She was part of the Canadian landscape artists of the 1920s influenced by the European impressionists. She counseled me to use the northern light when painting, and never to use black in my palette. This, long before I ever imagined that I might be an artist too....
I hope you enjoy my work.
That early training, coupled with 30 years of broad interests and experience, find me now with a free-ranging style. I paint, draw and photograph what pleases me - sometimes landscape, sometime impressionist, sometimes figurative, sometimes abstract. I've crossed over to digital photography, and find that my foundation in film and darkroom work influences how I use the camera. I prefer not to photoshop images.
I realize now that my earliest mentor was Grand Mother Carmichael. She was the blind, 90 something, grandmother of the pastor's family living across the street. We spent hours talking about art. She was part of the Canadian landscape artists of the 1920s influenced by the European impressionists. She counseled me to use the northern light when painting, and never to use black in my palette. This, long before I ever imagined that I might be an artist too....
I hope you enjoy my work.
