Megan Connors
Artist
Megan Connors is a Nova Scotian visual artist working in painting and drawing. After 25 years working as an Occupational Therapist, Megan had a midlife shift and started at NSCAD, graduating in 2017 with a BA in Fine Art and minor in Art History.
As a representational painter I have worked primarily in the traditional genre of still life painting, exploring the representation of “things” to comment on diverse aspects of contemporary culture. This work has shifted to using exotic nature images and creating large “collaged” style paintings, more intuitive and spontaneous than previous work. Thinking about our contemporary relationship with progressive ideas of diversity, the work considers concepts such as sexualization, idealism, appropriation, voyeurism, overgeneralization, the primitive fantasy, the drive to collect and categorize and the touristic exhilaration that we have with perceived “other”. I strongly believe in the value of art in social commentary and it is essential in my own process, but I also just love a pretty painting. These works aspire to be both.
Megan has also started teaching community classes from her studio space, Observational Drawing, Intro Painting, and looking to start some life drawing sessions.
You can find Megan at her studio space in Truro, on facebook , instagram , and by email
