Art Exhibit: Still Seeing Green: Paintings by Meg McLean

Meg McLean is a painter and children's illustrator living in Lyme, New Hampshire. Exhibit will be on display until April 27.

April 27, 2017
8:30 am - 1:00 pm
Location
7 Lebanon Street, Suite 107, Hanover, NH
Sponsored by
Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Dartmouth
Audience
Public
More information
Laura Belback
603-646-0154

Open: March 7 – April 27

7 Lebanon St, Suite 107 in Hanover
Monday thru Thursday • 8:30 – 4:30 PM
Fridays • 8:30 – 1:00 PM

Meg McLean is a painter and children's illustrator living in Lyme, New Hampshire. Her illustrations appear in books and publications such as Click Magazine, Weekly Reader, and Zoo Books, and her paintings are in collections here, there, and everywhere. She has an MFA in Painting and Drawing from Cranbrook Academy of Art and is a member of the Copley Society of Art, Boston. Her website can be found at megmclean.com.

"When I was ten years old, what I wanted from life was simple; namely, to do a cover for The New Yorker. I also wanted a horse, but even I knew that was unrealistic.
I grew up with my parcel of crayons and paints in Michigan's Upper Peninsula where instead of trappings like cities or museums or grocery stores with avocados, we had squeaky-clean air, long dazzling winters, and magnificent Lake Superior. The lake was the backdrop to every view looking north, a slice of deep blue along the horizon. If my childhood had a theme color, that blue would be it.
I don't remember a time when I wasn't compelled to make pictures, influenced not only by the surrounding countryside and the art on a certain magazine cover, but also by illustrations in my favorite children's books. I poured over them, making copies, trying to figure out how the artists did what they did.
Oddly, none of the people making these books lived anywhere near my neck of the woods. The East seemed to be the place for artists. When the time came for college, I headed to New England to study art.
Here I am still in New Hampshire, where we have squeaky-clean air and (not-so-long) dazzling winters. The landscape closely resembles those scenes in the children's books that fed my imagination for so many years. And sure enough, you can't swing a dead cat around your head without hitting another artist.
I do miss Lake Superior, but in a pinch, there's always the Atlantic Ocean. And I'm still waiting for that call from New York . . ."

This is free and open to the public.

Location
7 Lebanon Street, Suite 107, Hanover, NH
Sponsored by
Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Dartmouth
Audience
Public
More information
Laura Belback
603-646-0154