Five Paintings by Meghan Howland

Meghan Howland, born in 1985 in Massachusetts lives and works as an artist in Portland, Maine. She graduated from New Hampshire Institute of Art with a BFA and is a Candidate for her Masters in Fine Art at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia.

Her paintings takes the viewers into a seemingly dark fable world where she leaves them purposely to their own thoughts without telling an explicit story. Her work mostly shows people or objects she is constantly sourrounded by. The recurring bird image served her as a kind of a personal mascot in the beginning. In combination with the rather quiet portraits, the birds act more as a ‘perplexing embrace’ than an unsettling element of distraction.