ARTIST STATEMENT I devolved over the years from early portrait and figure work to focusing on composition - arranging simple, bold shapes void of subject and context within a limited palette. When occasional "entities" began popping up I initially rejected them - returning to anything representational felt like going backwards. But they kept coming through. They've been referred to as souls, creatures, beings and aliens. I like how they seem to commune and communicate with each other and with us from environments that seem both foreign and familiar, primitive and projected. There's a Welsh word that I like: Hiraeth n. (Welsh) "A spiritual longing for a home which maybe never was. Nostalgia for ancient places to which we cannot return. It is the echo of the lost places of our soul's past and our grief for them. It is in the wind, and the rocks, and the waves. It is nowhere and it is everywhere."And perhaps it is also a longing for of a future world not yet realized or which maybe never will be.​I studied at Boston University School of Fine Arts then Parsons School of Design and later continued studies at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco. After raising two kids on my own and decades of patching together a living in various creative roles (textile design, book illustration (meighanmorrison.com) etc, I decided to try to just paint which feels like both a reprieve from and a small rebellion against the exponential convolution that is today's world.​It is a pleasure to be able to continue in the artistic tradition of both my great, great grandfather Edmund Garrett,illustrator, painter, and mentor of American Impressionist painter Childe Hassam Edmund Garrett's work is in the permanent collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (and many other renowned institutions) and my great grandmother, award winning sculptorClara Pfeifer Garrett, whose work was purchased by the Metropolitan Museum of Art and widely exhibited at the Salon, Champs Elysees, Paris, The Royal Academy, London and beyond.​My paintings are part of private collections worldwide including notable political figures and distinguished members of the entertainment, sports and fashion industries.