about the artist

MEGHAN HILDEBRAND (b. 1978)

With dreamlike explorations of real and imagined places, Meghan Hildebrand's paintings invite the viewer to get lost in worlds with few boundaries and to place themselves in open-ended narratives. Colours and forms are built up intuitively through experimentation and spontaneous mark-making, lending raw energy to the paintings.  These unexpected breakthroughs keep Hildebrand in a constant process of reinvention and her work ever-changing. 

In her most recent canvases, Meghan dives into her coastal forest small town surroundings, employing a maximalist painting approach to express the magical and exhilarating feeling of being in the woods. Every aspect of the woods is teeming with life, while traces of human activity are evident through structures, roads and stumps. The daughter of an artist and a miner, Meghan has searched for ways to express the dual reality of Canadian life. One that treats the land we occupy with reverence alongside the dominant culture of resource extraction.

Originally from Whitehorse, Yukon, Hildebrand studied at the Kootenay School of the Arts and Nova Scotia College of Art + Design. She currently lives on the Sunshine Coast of BC, on the traditional territory of the Tla’amin Nation.

 Exhibiting since 1994, Meghan’s paintings are collected worldwide and available through fine art dealers in Canada, the United States and the Philippines.