b. 1986, Boston, Massachusetts

B.A. Architecture, Yale University (New Haven, CT)
M.A. Curating the Art Museum, The Courtauld Institute of Art (London, UK)

Meghan Weeks is a representational landscape painter living and working in Boston. Drawing and painting through her childhood, she studied Architecture at Yale University and Museum Curating at the Courtauld Institute of Art in London. After graduating, she entered work in the cultural heritage field, continuing to paint and show her own art professionally. In 2022, she decided to step away from her curatorial role and pursue a full-time career as an artist.

An enthusiastic plein air painter, Weeks begins most of her pieces outside and on site, working in all seasons to capture the experience of observing the built and natural landscapes of New England and beyond. While her work celebrates the environment and architectural vernaculars of her home region, she enjoys the challenge of documenting the unique light conditions of places farther afield, and so far has painted onsite on every continent except Antarctica.

When she returns to her Boston studio, she uses information gathered outdoors to refine smaller paintings and develop larger works. She believes that painting the world as it is today documents the human imprint upon our landscape, and our ability and responsibility to protect it.

Weeks’ work can be found in galleries in Nantucket, Boston, Rockport (MA), and Vermont.

www.megcweeks.com
@meghanweeksartist