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Walking Calmly in the Storm
I’m happy to announce the opening of a group show at @galeriestephanie in Manila, Philippines! The show features Katrina Cuenca @katrinacuenca_art, Hae Ryun @haeryun_artist and me!
The gallery explains: “The works of Cuenca (Philippines), Hildebrand (Canada), and Hae Ryun (South Korea) build the sanctuary and pause of an exhibit entitled 𝘞𝘢𝘭𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘊𝘢𝘭𝘮𝘭𝘺 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘮, exploring the pursuit of serenity despite chaos”.
The exhibit has just opened and will run until October 26.
Thank you to the team at @galeriestephanie!
STANDING BY
Up next is Meghan Hildebrand's solo exhibition, “Standing By”. Opening April 27th, this exhibition explores colourful, dream-like landscapes inspired by communities along the west coast. Cabins on the shore, boats, or logs floating along waterways all serve as anchors, tethering the figurative to the abstract.
Hildebrand explores both familiar and dream-like landscapes. She creates an exciting sense of depth through her use of colour and pattern, where viewers almost hope to push past the colourful foliage and explore what’s beneath. Paradoxically, Hildebrand succeeds in using both maximalist and simplified principles to create worlds within worlds.
This collection of eleven new paintings provides just enough visual information to give viewers a firm sense of place, while allowing their mind to create endless narratives. Working on a flat canvas, Hildebrand creates an exciting sense of depth through her use of colour and pattern. Each work invites the viewers to dive in, explore, and place themselves in these dream worlds that Hildebrand has created.
THERE'S THIS PLACE
This fall I’m joining White Rock Gallery. My first collection with this well-established Vancouver area gallery is now available to view online and opens Friday October 20, from 6-8 pm.
STUDIO TOUR 2023!
Newsletter May 2023
Lightningwise - May 11 2023 at Mayberry Winnipeg Tuxedo
THURSDAY MAY 11, 6-8 pm
Artist in attendance, remarks at 6:45
Mayberry Winnipeg Tuxedo
Unit 138 - 2025 Corydon Avenue
Contact the gallery to register interest in pre-sales.
LIGHTNINGWISE
When paper is made, the fibres in the pulp align, side by side, like logs floating down a river. Torn lengthwise, or with the grain, paper tears nearly straight. Against the grain, it wants to tear in any direction but straight. Lightningwise, as I decided to call it. The torn edge, the uncontrolled line, adds an element of chance, which can help bring a painting to life, a lesson I took away from a workshop with painter Norman Yates many years ago. This jagged line was the starting point for the Lightningwise series. I wanted to create dynamic, electrically charged, high-contrast compositions that would zip your view around the canvas, as if tracing a bolt of lightning with the eye.
Although it might seem obvious, as a painter, I see myself as a colourist. The paintings are influenced by the landscape around me, but the shapes of mountains, water and sky are essentially containers for colour. This series represents an exercise in balancing these shapes, in terms of hue, contrast and composition to create scenes that are both stimulating and harmonious. I love to be surprised by colour, in real life and in art. My painting practice is an ongoing dialogue with myself: I set a goal, try to meet the goal, and then I look at ways to change the goal that will challenge me to become a better painter, to create something new.
Through all the iterations of my work, landscape has remained at the core. There is so much in terms of visual information - such as the specific geographical details, how light strikes, the view depending on my perspective, the quality of the atmosphere, the time of day, and the reflections of the lives lived there. As a foil to natural landscape elements, I like to include evidence of human presence, be it a pile of logs, unidentified shapes beneath tarps, or roughly stacked stones.
The last few summers have been spent exploring BC’s coast by boat, documenting the views and especially the small outposts where people make their marks with their docks, shops, floating homes, and all their assorted piles. I enjoy the mysteries of these places. What makes people desire such isolation? Who lives there? What’s under the tarp?
Lightningwise! Local Art Lease Event at Meg's Studio
SATURDAY FEB 11 12-4 & SUNDAY FEB 12 by appointment
Please join me at my studio and find out what I've been up to for the last 4 months! Lightningwise is my latest body of work - be the first to lay eyes on it before it ships off to Mayberry Winnipeg.
Join in on Saturday from 12-4, or schedule a private viewing for yourself or a group on Sunday Feb.12. Just drop me a message.
4624 A Willingdon Avenue. Wheelchair accessible (non-accessible bathroom)
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qathet STUDIO TOUR 2022
Hit me up this weekend! Studio tour is on, with over 40 participating artists over 27 venues. Brand new paintings and pieces from the archives. I have a secret: MUGS! Saturday and Sunday from 10-4. 4624 Wilingdon Avenue.
Summer 2022 Newsletter
CHANGING CHANNELS
Meghan Hildebrand: Changing Channels
April 23 - May 7 Madrona Gallery, Victoria, BC
Opening Reception: Saturday, April 23, 1-3 PM
Artist in Attendance
This collection of 13 new paintings features a blend of detailed figurative elements and abstract landscapes, an exciting shift in Hildebrand's style which adds to the sensations of wonder the artist is known to create.
Artist’s Statement:
In this series, imagining lives lived at the water’s edge, I answered the pull to stare at the sea. I’ve envisioned the kinds of places I’d most like to encounter, and how it might feel to be there. The Salish Sea, a tangle of islands and channels, provides the foundation and playground for painterly experimentation.
Latest Newsletter
qathet Region Studio Tour 2021
I’ve been so excited to be on the studio tour since I landed my dream studio. With new safety regs in BC in place I feel good about being able to open up and have a great weekend with my community! I’ll be there to greet you Saturday and Sunday, August 28/29, from 12-6. Here are some shots from today’s clean up.
https://artpowellriver.com/
Let Out the Night
Let Out the Night opens Friday, July 16 at Mayberry Fine Art in Winnipeg, Tuxedo location.
Art News & Foodbank Fundraiser
Hey all, happy new year.
Announcing food bank fundraiser #5. Through 5 sales in 2020, we raised over 10K for food banks and social justice orgs around the world. The next one goes live Saturday, January 9 at 10 am, Pacific Daylight Time.
This link will take you there - but it won’t work until the set time. They’ve been selling out - so good luck!
http://meghanhildebrand.com/food-bank-fundraiser-2021/
Here’s a preview of the pieces up for grabs. Full proceeds to the food bank of your choice.
Shipping within North America only.
Art News May 2020
LINK to my latest newsletter.
What Are You Made Of? February 1, Galerie Stephanie, Manila
Medicine by Janet Newbury & Meghan Hildebrand
M E D I C I N E (2019) by Janet Newbury and Meghan Hildebrand
"Medicine is a beautiful reminder that children bring not simply joy, but wellness in the truest sense of the word, into the lives of others by their presence. We are all challenged with reconciling the pure beauty of that knowledge with a dark history of the intentional separation of children from family and community. Knowing this truth makes way for healing."
Marlane Paul, Tla'amin Nation
Medicine is a work of non-fiction and an artistic exploration. It is a personal reflection on loss and the role of children in community.
Janet Newbury's writings are accompanied by Meghan Hildebrand's watercolour works. Visual tapestries of potential narratives weave day and night. Secret life and magic animate lush forests, representing lost connections while holding open possibilities for new ways of being.
Printed in Montreal. 5.75" x 5.75", 30 pages.
Janet is a Child and Youth Care instructor at the University of Victoria, community-based researcher, and writer.
Meghan is a Powell River-based visual artist. Her work can be found at meghanhildebrand.com
HOW TO ACCESS THE BOOK:
Dancing Tree Gallery in Powell River, BC
Pollen Sweaters' book shelf in Lund, BC
Etsy for mail orders - price includes shipping.
If you would like to purchase in bulk for curriculum or training, please email janet.newbury@gmail.com
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About us, and this book:
We are friends who have been living and creating on Tla’amin territory for over a decade. As white settlers without children of our own, we have been unsure of our place in the public conversations about settler-colonialism and its ongoing impacts on children and all of creation.
Our gratitude and indebtedness to this land and its people is immense, and we are so appreciative of teachings that remind us that a gift is also a responsibility. With this book, we raise our voices in solidarity, and we raise our hands to all those who have persevered to keep cultures and communities intact. Heartfelt thanks also to Shanne McCaffrey, Zoe Ludski and Tony Colton for valuable feedback on this project.
Ship in the Woods
Pocket Estates
Pocket Estates opened in Victoria March 9, 2019 at Madrona Gallery, and runs until March 23rd. Accompanying essay contributed by Theresa Slater (read here!).
