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For
Nashville artist Megan Lightell, painting is a natural response
to land. Raised in a rural community, she sought out the fast-paced
life of New York but found it lacking in something she could not
describe. Returning to the country, she began to relate to the comfort,
mystery, and silence embodied in the landscape. She says of her
work,"There is an eternity present in the land that was here
before we were, and will continue in its cycles long after we are
gone. There is almost a necessary spiritual connection that we have
with the land that sustains our very lives, and in the increasingly
urban lifestyles that many have adopted, that connection becomes
faint and distant. My hope is that through painting I can show appreciation
for my environment, in all its starkness and softness, warmth and
loneliness." |
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