Abstract Paintings
Megan Carty describes her abstract expressionist paintings as “visual poems that illustrate the human lived experience.” Our inner-beings are both beautiful AND flawed. In our lives’ journeys, we experience celebrations, achievements, love, and fun. In contrast, we also experience losses, injustices, abuses, and sadness. We are both given TO and taken FROM. Carty aims to document this dichotomy using specific colors, compositions with open space, and line. She pulls her mark making inspiration from plants and flowers, as they are the ultimate symbols of continuous death and renewal.
She Kissed Someone Better, framed abstract botanical painting
She Kissed Someone Better, framed abstract botanical painting
“She Kissed Someone Better” is a 9x12 inch gouache and acrylic abstract painting (with oil pastel in the layering) on heavy art paper.
The piece is signed on the front and on the back. This piece is framed with a white wooden frame with UV protection acrylic layer. Back is wired, ready to hang.
My latest abstract pieces explore what it feels like inside my brain while overcoming life obstacles and celebrating the joys. It is complicated and full of color, confusion, decay, growth, and beauty. There is optimism, light, and energy. There is fear, desperation and stress. There is dismay, chatter, loneliness and overwhelm and it ALL exists together in the beauty of life.
I create a tangle of color, shape and line to convey this confusion of life and decay to the viewer in a relatable way. Surprisingly, the end result is something I hope to be “pretty” and interesting to look at. To be relatable and delightful despite having a morbid undercurrent. Like it has a hidden secret there in plain view…a secret shared between artist and viewer. What we see on the surface isn’t always the end of the story; it’s just the very beginning.
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Megan Carty is a toe-tappin' finger-snappin' artist who makes thoughtful and honest abstract paintings for style-mavens who have a flair for bold statements and unmistakeable style. Through her bubbly personality, her use of bright colors, and her positive messages of joy and mindfulness she's here to bring you JOY and deliver ZING to your well-dressed walls!
Her abstract art has been featured by Anthropologie, Maine Home & Design, Maine Cottage, the Improper Bostonian, Glitter Guide, The English Room, Loom & Kiln, Sloan Kettering Memorial Hospital and The Boston Daybook. When she's not joyfully slinging the paint you can find her listening to records, hiding from her three young kiddos, indulging in bad reality television (that MAY involve housewives) while savoring a delicious hot chocolate. Her awesome husband Chris always adds just the right amount of marshmallow!
Megan regularly creates fresh original paintings for sale. Sign up for her Collectors Circle here to find out (before anyone else!) when new collections are to be released.