Calidum Solumque

Painting is on display in the salon come by and see it!

About the Artist 

Meredith Turcotte received her BFA in painting from Monserrat College of Art in Beverly, Ma. She also spent a year studying painting at Maine College of Art in Portland. Meredith is currently living on the North Shore of Massachusetts where she paints, teaches elementary school and teaches dance. Growing up in a rural area, Meredith spent a great deal of her youth playing in the neighboring woods and rivers. This love for nature is something that has matured into her visual dialogue. Her new landscape works are little recorded histories of a particular moment experienced while walking her dogs in the woods, taking a swim or canoeing down a river. Meredith's real life experiences have translated themselves into her more abstract pieces or "earth studies ". These are paintings and hand printed viscosity prints that delve deeper into what makes up our surroundings. They are organic designs found everywhere in nature; from the beautiful air bubbles forming under an icy pond to the intricate patterning of the Crab Nebula, to the nucleus of a cell. It is her theory that we are all drawn to these organic patterns and designs because they are all around and within us. They are what visually connect people to all other life, plant or animal. Subsequently, it is these connections with the world around us that make us human.