Meghan Fitzsimmons- Local Artist Profile

August 29, 2007

My name is Meghan Fitzsimmons. I was born and raised in Owen Sound, Ontario and after attending University I was proud to return to my home town where culture is abundant and the sense of community is strong. I graduated from the Honours Visual Arts program at Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario in 2003 and headed home to set up my studio and to get involved in the arts community that motivated me to become an artist in the first place.

I started everly art productions in the spring of 2004 with the goal of creating and showing not only my own artwork, but to make sure the art community will remain strong with the presence of a new generation of up and coming artists. Since returning home I have had a hand in a few projects aimed to give emerging artists a chance to show their work in events such as Special Blend: Art Exhibit and Coffee House(July 2004), and City Hall Art Crawl, an event that has been adding colour to downtown Owen Sound since the summer of 2004. I will also be entering my 2nd year as co-chair for Art Town in 2006.

For my whole life I have either had a crayon or a pencil in my hand, until I picked up a paintbrush while at university. I guess I loved the colours of the wax, and the precision I could get with the graphite, but the freedom I felt with the paint was like nothing else. I no longer felt like I had to confine my ideas and images to a flat surface. I started looking for a new “canvas” because I wanted my work to actually exist in my space, to have volume. I was drawn to the form of the chair because of its close connection with the body, it has been used somewhere else in time and place, supported many people, seen many stories unfold. I also like that it is a functioning piece of furniture, it is part of life, part of the background. When I put paint on it, I define all of its surfaces, it becomes sculptural, no longer just a benign piece of reality. It has become important to me and to my career that my work can be a part of other peoples lives, they can live with it, use it and appreciate it for what it is, what it has become.

Although I have a strong base of ideas that I find reoccurring in my work, my style and subject matter are still evolving, and likely will for some time. The idea of layers of life, of hidden stories, passing of time and experiences, and proof that there have been many lives before the one I live fascinates me. I look forward to the future, to examining life around me and letting my experiences manifest themselves in my artwork. My inquisitive nature will always keep me searching while my love for art will always keep me creating.

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Contact Meghan

Meghan’s Web Site

Email: everly_art@rogers.com

Phone: (519) 376-0433