My paintings lie in between the realms of figuration and abstraction. Each picture is a reaction to looking, but in the act of painting a transformation occurs that allows the image to move away from reality.

Despite the figuration that can be seen in the work, i.e. landscape, human form, or still life, the expression is subtle. This approach allows the viewer to interpret the picture openly and complete the meaning based on a personal connection to the imagery. A sense of reality is present, but these pictures suggest a looseness of representation and the use of an unexpected color palette and the noticeable brush and palette knife marks. Each work is intuitively linked and fused between figurative inclinations and the movement toward abstraction. This collection of work offers a range of interpretations since the paintings can be both abstract and representational, geometric and organic, formal and emotive, and expressionistic while maintaining the flatness of field painting.

My goal while working is for the finished painting to present itself as a harmonious, simplified image with the authority to transform the viewer's own pictorial experience.

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Megan Hinton