Megan Baker
London|(b) 1996|Central Saint Martins
Megan Baker (b. 1996, UK) is a British painter whose work draws on Old Master painting, literature, cinematography and poetry. Referencing artists including Rubens, Titian and the Pre-Raphaelites, Baker reinterprets art historical influences through a contemporary lens, creating dream-like landscapes that move between abstraction and figuration.
Working primarily in oil, Baker builds layered, impasto surfaces in which fragmented figures, memory and imagined landscapes emerge and dissolve. Her practice explores time, solitude and the shifting nature of memory, often drawing on the colours and atmosphere of the British landscape. She graduated from Central Saint Martins in 2018, receiving the Kate Barton Painting Award and Cass Art Prize, and has since exhibited internationally, including at VOLTA Basel, Women in Art Fair, Contemporary Istanbul and exhibitions in London, Dubai, New York and Singapore.
In their own words
“Painting allows me to linger, the paint slipping into its own form of renewal, and I rely quite heavily on this act of slipping. I keep returning to this notion that time is unrepeatable but it is also circular. I hope that the works sit in that in-between space of feeling familiar but just outside of our grasp, where perhaps you recognise the image more than you see it”
Artworks by Megan Baker
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