Marcel Proust wrote, “Poets claim that we recapture for a moment the self that we were long ago when we enter some house or garden in which we used to live in our youth. But these are most hazardous pilgrimages, which end as often in disappointment as in success. It is in ourselves that we should rather seek to find those fixed places, contemporaneous with different years.”
Constantly Growing, acrylic on panel, 20 x 30"
Megan Aline describes her work as being “deeply informed by my history of growing up in Maine.” She continues, “In my work I want to remind people that nature is a part of them, that we are built of it, and we can find ways to reconnect to that source.
“Painting also provides a source of identification for me, as it displays the same nuances as many of my own childhood activities. My images indicate a precision of detail and an attention to form are as important as the easy grace and melodious balance of the overall composition.”
Harmonious, acrylic on panel, 8 x 4"
Deepest Pathways, acrylic on panel, 16 x 16"The figures in her paintings are silhouettes composed of landscapes, windows to an interior life or one inseparable from the exterior. She describes the “‘inner landscape’—a map created from emotions, ideas and sensations collected throughout our lives.” 
An Underlying Message, acrylic on panel, 24 x 24"
An exhibition of her recent work, titled Deeply Rooted: Silhouette Landscape Paintings from Megan Aline, will be shown at Robert Lange Studios in Charleston, South Carolina, January 7 through 28. On opening day will be a pop-in from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. with Aline on hand to answer questions from 5 to 7 p.m.
Infinite, acrylic on panel, 18 x 36"
In her 8-by-4-inch acrylic on panel Harmonious, the finely painted landscape within the silhouette devolves into paint in the lower part of the composition. She explains, “In a number of the pieces for this show, I’ve allowed the landscapes to dissolve at the bottom, back to the recipe of paint colors that created them—in a way, returning to the roots from which they came.”
In Constantly Growing it is as if the stuff of the universe is coalescing into trees, forest and the figure—all the same stuff, perceived differently. —
Robert Lange Studios
2 Queen Street • Charleston, SC 29401 • (843) 805-8052 • www.robertlangestudios.com
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