Meghan is an emerging artist exploring shifts in place and identity. Her childhood was split between the Cayman Islands and England, and she’s currently living and working in Cornwall. Each locale has become home in different ways Meghan questions those shifting physical and emotional distances. Working from childhood photographs, she transforms memory into large-scale oil portraits, where washes of colour evoke place and fragmentation. This symbolises a rebellion against the distance between the adult and child self. She navigates adult nostalgia whilst revisiting childlike wonder. Her practice invites reflection on personal histories, archives, and questions where home exists when memory is unsettled.
Working primarily in oil on canvas, Meghan develops expressive, large-scale portraits that draw from digital camera imagery captured during her childhood. Through vibrant colour, layered surfaces, and gestural mark-making, her paintings navigate the tension between past and present, translating personal archives into emotionally charged visual encounters. Her work often centres on family dynamics, examining how relationships evolve across time, distance, and shifting environments.
A key aspect of her practice lies in the material process itself. Paint is repeatedly layered, thinned, and stripped back, allowing traces of earlier marks to remain visible. These interruptions—drips, exposed grounds, and fragmented forms—act as metaphors for the instability of memory, suggesting both absence and persistence. Through this approach, Meghan embraces chance and material response, allowing each painting to evolve intuitively while resisting over-resolution.
Her portraits often confront the viewer directly, creating a reciprocal exchange between subject and audience. Positioned between private memory and public encounter, the works become sites where nostalgia, loss, and reinterpretation intersect. By enlarging intimate source imagery, Meghan transforms personal experience into a shared space of reflection, inviting viewers to consider their own relationships to memory, identity, and emotional distance.
Drawing on imagery from both her childhood in the Caribbean and her life in England, her work reflects a longing to reconnect with earlier modes of being—instinctive, fearless, and creatively uninhibited. At the same time, it acknowledges the impossibility of fully retrieving the past, instead holding space for what remains, what is fragmented, and what continues to shape the present.
There’s always a question whether you look back at your childhood exactly how you experienced it, or if images and stories from others build your perception of it, as you surely can’t remember a lot from, your younger years. Nostalgia is such a special experience and through these paintings, her memories are pushed and the viewers can reminisce on their own childhood. Sophisticated techniques and mediums used juxtaposes the childlike elements.