About Meg Wroe

My paintings reflect the way colours like music, evoke more than words;   I like the place where one colour meets another - the language of paint on canvas.  Through my work I want to capture a moment and a feeling about a place or person. I mostly work in oil paint, but also use acrylic and make sketches in watercolours and oil pastels. I like to paint on canvas or on wood – which I carve into to form texture and depth.  I have always been drawn to found objects and sometimes paint on found surfaces, using mixed media/collage and photo-transfers.  

I find inspiration by walking around - noticing colours, texture and light in the urban landscape – the glow of chimney stacks in the evening sun, or burst of vibrant green moss on an old wall.  My favourite artists are too many to name, but Im constantly drawn back to the  Abstract Expressionist painters – Mark Rothko, Clifford Still,  Helen Frankenthaler and more recently the work of Sean Scully.