Megan Baker’s works explore moments of stillness within nature, capturing a feeling of comfort in solitude where the vastness of landscape makes us conscious of our contained state as human beings. Unfolding through layers of impasto, Megan Baker’s oil paintings suggest an ever-changing state of being, where fragmented and gestural figures are continually interrupted by the immediacy of the paint. Focusing on the physicality of the medium itself, Baker’s practice is centred on the way time can be experienced through painting, for the perception of time shifts and evolves as one is absorbed by the search and discovery of the next hidden detail.
Baker appears in international private collections across the UK, USA, Europe and Qatar. Born in the UK (1996), Baker graduated from the prominent school Central Saint Martins in 2018, when she received the Kate Barton Painting Award and the Cass Art Prize. Baker is currently shortlisted for the Young Masters Art Prize (2023) and has been previously shortlisted for the Clyde and Co Art Award (2019) and also came runner up at the Hix Art Award (2019). Between 2022 and 2023, the artist was exhibited at Eye of the Collector art fair in collaboration with Christie's Auction House, was part of the international show ‘Homecoming’ at Sharon Golan Art Projects in Tel Aviv.