Nathanson, Meghan

Mission

I am called to write about my inner-world in order to inspire a deeper, more resounding presence in the lives of others; and to create art that shares beauty and has the power to stir. I have a broad view of the world that allows me to make connections between seemingly disparate concepts while at the same time elevating the worth discovered in the ordinary. I share words, images and concepts that encourage inner-softening and the lengthening of breath. In all that I do, I mean to tell a story and to invite others to join me in winnowing out the wonder and the why we are here. I capture the potential in day-to-day living and piece together new-life from what otherwise might have been discarded.

Artist & Writer Statement:
I notice beauty everywhere. I see it in the rusty nail, the broken fence. I see it in the crying face, the rounded hips. I see it when I am looking at your skin closely as you speak. I notice your freckles, your blemishes, your unkempt hair. I love those things. I love a freshly made bed, water dripping from your eyelashes when you come from the shower, shadows and golden leaves. I am moved by the texture of wool socks and acorn tops, heat coming off of a wood stove, the way my arms twist above me when I dance, the slap on a table in frustration. My work is about these things. It’s about the human experience and what happens in the seemingly ordinary moments of living.

BIO (Art Specific):

Meghan’s journey as a visual artist began in the mid-1990’s in New York City where she began painting in the course of self-discovery, encompassing as subjects her relationships, her environment, her capacity to nurture, and expressing them, literally, in the colors through which she sees life. She received training through the Art Students League of New York as well as The New School in New York. Meghan’s work has been shown in the neighborhoods of DUMBO, the East Village and SOHO in New York City and in various galleries and venues in Coastal Maine.

Meghan works primarily in mixed media, transforming figurative pencil drawings into colorful collages by applying the torn papers from repurposed wall-calendars onto the drawings in a painterly fashion. Some of her largest creations are composed of thousands of individual pieces, each gently torn and massaged together with a polymer medium and combined into a cohesive whole. She is committed to listening in her craft and was once surprised when a project with her children—gluing thousands of acorns onto the outline of a tree—aroused inspiration and became a central piece in her body of work. This Tree of Hope is now on display at Maine Audubon in Falmouth, ME along with a second tree created in conjunction with the Children’s Museum & Theatre of Maine in Portland. 

Meghan is available for commissioned work and aspires to bring an understanding of her subjects into her creative process expressing who they are through a collection of colors and images attributed to their being.

BIO:
Meghan Nathanson is an interdisciplinary writer and artist living and working in Coastal Maine. Her work flows holistically from who she is in a journal of discovery exploring themes such as mindful presence, motherhood, inner and outer freedom, body language, color and the gifts of the earth. 

In 2012, Meghan began sharing about the way her spiritual life intersected with her new role as a mother of two children. Early on she discovered that her journey in mindful presence was instrumental in her ability to foster meaningful connections with her children and she wanted to share this experience with other mothers. Since then she has written and shared hundreds of essays and recorded mediations that reach families from Manhattan to Mumbai.

Meghan is currently working on her first book—a spiritual memoir—that reveals and reflects on the unlikely spiritual teachers and experiences that aided in her awakening and allowed her to become the conscious creator she is today. 

Meghan’s journey as a visual artist began in the mid -1990’s in New York City where she began painting in the course of self-discovery, encompassing as subjects her relationships, her environment, her capacity to nurture, and expressing them, literally, in the colors through which she sees life. She received training through the Art Students League of New York as well as The New School in New York. Meghan’s work has been shown in the neighborhoods of DUMBO, the East Village and SOHO in New York City and in various galleries and venues in Coastal Maine.

Meghan works primarily in mixed media, transforming figurative pencil drawings into colorful collages by applying the torn papers from repurposed wall-calendars onto the drawings in a painterly fashion. Some of her largest creations are composed of hundreds of individual pieces, each carefully selected, gently torn and massaged together with a polymer medium and combined into a cohesive whole. She is deeply open to listening in her craft and was once surprised when a project with her children—gluing hundreds of acorns that had fallen on their back porch onto the outline of a tree—aroused inspiration and became a central piece in her body of work now on display at Maine Audubon in Falmouth, ME as well as at the Children’s Museum & Theatre of Maine in Portland. 

Meghan is available for commissioned work and aspires to bring an understanding of her subjects into her creative process expressing who they are through a collection of colors and images specifically attributed to their being.