About the Artist
Meaghan Howe
My name is Meaghan Howe and I graduated from Keene State College in December 2012 with a B.A. in Studio Art and a B.S. in Early Childhood Education. I believe that creative expression and art are essential to explore in our early years of development. For this reason, I am very excited to utilize my skills and knowledge of art in early childhood classrooms.
I did not discover a love for art until my second year at Keene State. I guess you might say that the talent I have is not refined, but raw. My strength and passion lie in working abstractly, specifically in drawing and printmaking. I enjoy making large scale drawings using compressed charcoal, India ink, and pastels. In printmaking I enjoy monotype prints and linocut prints. I often find that my prints inform my drawings and vise versa. I enjoy observing the ways in which a product from one medium can be applied to another successfully through an entirely different process.
I did not discover a love for art until my second year at Keene State. I guess you might say that the talent I have is not refined, but raw. My strength and passion lie in working abstractly, specifically in drawing and printmaking. I enjoy making large scale drawings using compressed charcoal, India ink, and pastels. In printmaking I enjoy monotype prints and linocut prints. I often find that my prints inform my drawings and vise versa. I enjoy observing the ways in which a product from one medium can be applied to another successfully through an entirely different process.
Artist Statement
Rarely visible to the naked eye, these circular forms vibrating with energy and life are captured by the digital media. This spiritual phenomenon has somehow manifested itself in my work; hugged by a wispy haze or a tail of fog, the circles are repetitious and changing in size, dimension, and time. They are lost and at home as they continuously disappear and emerge from the bed of my work. As I push and pull the medium, the color, and the depth of my work to capture this spiritual phenomenon through abstraction, I grow closer to discovering the message I want my viewers to receive. A message, which invites the viewer to venture through the here and now in an ethereal light.
My experimentation with abstraction as a means of revealing my spirituality and making the connection between what is seemingly only captured by the digital media and what is captured by my creative consciousness, is a new and ever-growing metamorphosis. For me, this abstract process is achieved most successfully through monotype printmaking and large scale drawing. Until recently I found myself struggling to identify my place as an artist. As I began to sever my ties from proportion and figure, I fell into my place; a place that redefines proportion and the figure. My work aims to uncover what lies beneath the surface of the figure: the vitality that drives the gesture; the hues that radiate through the pores defining a halo of power and character; and the eternal all-knowingness that lives on long after we are gone.
My experimentation with abstraction as a means of revealing my spirituality and making the connection between what is seemingly only captured by the digital media and what is captured by my creative consciousness, is a new and ever-growing metamorphosis. For me, this abstract process is achieved most successfully through monotype printmaking and large scale drawing. Until recently I found myself struggling to identify my place as an artist. As I began to sever my ties from proportion and figure, I fell into my place; a place that redefines proportion and the figure. My work aims to uncover what lies beneath the surface of the figure: the vitality that drives the gesture; the hues that radiate through the pores defining a halo of power and character; and the eternal all-knowingness that lives on long after we are gone.
EducationKeene State College [Undergraduate]
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