Explicit Fairytales

Meghan Howland, born in 1985 in Massachusetts inhabits and works as a juvenile artist in Portland. With her paintings she takes the viewer into a fairytale-like, apparently dark and beautiful world where she departs him purposely to his own thoughts without telling an explicit story. Her work mostly displays people or things she is certainly sourrounded by. The recurring bird likeness serves her as a kind of a personal mascot in the starting, in blend with the rather quiet portraits the birds act more as a ‘perplexing adopt’ than an unsettling component of disruption. Howland however is less worried about telling her own story than letting the observer dive into his own fantasy and take away his very own story and feeling. inquired about her take on her work, she answers: ‘I believe the significant thing about my art to me is it’s way of broadcasting without so numerous words or interpretations. There is a power in that.’

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