Megan Owenson
Meg Owenson is a Scarborough-based artist whose work explores the complex relationship between humans and the natural world. A graduate of Leeds School of Art with a degree in Fine Art, Meg initially honed her skills as a visual development artist in the film and gaming industries, where she worked on concept art and world-building for a variety of well known projects. Her background in visual storytelling has deeply influenced her artistic approach, blending imagination with a grounded exploration of the world around us. Meg has begun building her fine art practice, focusing on both painting and drawing. Through her work, she delves into the intricate patterns, textures, and forces of nature, often considering how we perceive and interact with our environment. Her pieces invite reflection on humanity’s place within the larger ecosystem, questioning our impact and connection to the world we inhabit.
Megan Owenson
Meg Owenson is a Scarborough-based artist whose work explores the complex relationship between humans and the natural world. A graduate of Leeds School of Art with a degree in Fine Art, Meg initially honed her skills as a visual development artist in the film and gaming industries, where she worked on concept art and world-building for a variety of well known projects. Her background in visual storytelling has deeply influenced her artistic approach, blending imagination with a grounded exploration of the world around us. Meg has begun building her fine art practice, focusing on both painting and drawing. Through her work, she delves into the intricate patterns, textures, and forces of nature, often considering how we perceive and interact with our environment. Her pieces invite reflection on humanity’s place within the larger ecosystem, questioning our impact and connection to the world we inhabit.
Moments
Graphite and Charcoal
60.5cm x 69cm
Time and memories are like keyframes in life’s animation, crucial moments that shape everything in between. The first frost, falling leaves, the hush before a storm. These aren’t just seasonal details, they’re memory’s anchors; stillness in a moving world. Days ripple between them, but time follows those defining frames.
Meg Owenson’s drawing captures four of nature’s keyframes: a mushroom emerging, growing and decaying. Nature never rushes, but it never stops. Its changes may be subtle, yet key moments stand out: a migrating bird, the first spring flower, a once-climbed tree now hollow and humming with insects. These are memory’s markers. Like animators, we gather nature’s fragments. They shape how we see and feel. We move through cycles and solstices not just as observers, but as part of the unfolding—each step a frame, each season a memory, each memory a way of moving through time. Like animators we gather these fragments of nature, and they shape how we see and feel. We move through woods and winds, through cycles and solstices, not just as observers, but as part of the unfolding sequence, each step a frame, each season a memory, each memory a way of moving through time.
