Megan Chalfant is a visual artist specializing in drawing and painting across a variety of media, often combining writing and poetry with her visual works.
Her work, and the themes explored therein, are considered by the artist to be a response, a movement of the heart in reply to all kinds of lived experience. They are a way to lean into the redemptive possibilities of beauty, finding means to navigate the interior difficulties faced and arrive at a place of transformative hope. Her desire as an artist is that, by encountering her work, others might experience a share in the cathartic and restorative capacities of beauty.
“At the heart of it, I want to create something beautiful with my life. Not only in the artwork but in the medium of life itself. The choices I make, the way I craft the moments of my days - it all layers and builds, and an image begins to take shape. In many ways my skills are poor and I am still learning how to love, how to create. But each mark becomes part of the under-painting, each layer building up the rich texture of life, a testimony to the converting work of grace in me.”
