Megan Grant - Futuresteading artist on noticing the weeds at the service station

The talented Megan Grant bought the futuresteading book to life with her vibrant depictions of a seasonal, intentional and ritual rich life.  After a year of being asked, this introvert who dreams and thinks in colours and pictures  finally said yes to being interviewed. We chat about her intuitive approach to creativity, her deep need to keep trying despite making plenty of work that doesn't make her happy and how a magnificent collaboration with clothing brand Gormon came about - but why she rarely wears the pieces herself.

Show notes Making art her life by intuition 

She thinks and dreams in pictures

Why picture making is her language to connect to other people

Developing her style via lots of work that doesn’t make her happy until the ones that make her happy appear

Her love of children's art more than anything - tapping back into the innocence of children art - her main goal when she paints she has two brains that are in conflict which each other

Finding the balance between art that is intellectualised and art that is intuitive

Letting accidents happen and feeling her way through them

In art it’s important to make terrible work over and over again

The value of sleeping on things to clarify perspective

Being reflective to ensure evolution

Being happy for her work to represent her

The story of her involvement in the futuresteading book

Collborating with Gormon clothing

Being the kids of creative parents 

Art becoming part of your DNA when you’re the child of an artist

Being prolific in your creativity

The balance of being an artist that needs to fit ‘normal’ life into it

The financial compromise of being a full time artist. Part by design and part by necessity

The life long sacrifice of being an artist despite the reward of being able to create freely

Creating commission pieces

Setting out with blind faith and hope

Despite a 20 year career, she is ‘only just getting started’

The breathtaking discovery that you could ‘paint for a living’

Tapping into art for arts sake

Why art is an important part of simply being alive

Art brings peace, purpose and the bleeding obvious through interpretation

Why artists are the provocateurs of our community

Feeling fortunate to have an endless source of hope and optimism because she has art in her life

Painting for mental health

Self containment that comes from her creativity

Grappling with the need to use  art as a statement maker

Beauty is its own reason for being

Why art is culturally soothing

Noticing the weeds at the service station

Advice for her daughter 

We have to go and make the inspiration happen by doing

Finding a drive, style and direction in your own time

“You can’t wait for the inspiration to come” References Fenton and Fenton

Megan Grant Instagram

Gormon clothing

Gary Miles Art

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