Join Sēfari founder Jobi Manson and artist Meg Holgate in a live streamed dialouge exploring self expression and the creative process. 

Meg Holgate is an artist living and working in the Pacific northwest.

“Each painting is a contemplation, an interpretation derived from the simple visual language of beauty in nature. As I deepen my relationship to the sublime, I am moved to explore the transient, the fleeting and the contingent.

Having relocated to the Pacific Northwest over 25 years ago, water and atmosphere have remained recurring themes for me. I look to capture a moment of stillness, choosing to paint with thin layers of color in various mediums, either on canvas or paper. Currently I am investigating lightfields to suggest a place of infinite potential while reducing my work to the simplest shapes in order to hold these morphic reflections.

Much of my work evolves from a euphoric recall; that singular moment when I have experienced beauty. It is from this recall that I create work. The experience of awe rewires my mind. These are the times when my breath has been taken away, when my vision has been altered. It is a moment when I recognise the interconnectedness with life and picking up a paint brush feels both exciting and daunting as I endeavor to express an almost intangible moment.”

-Meg Holgate

Jobi Manson is an interdisciplinary artist working in neuroaesthetics, the landscapes of sound, and elemental immersion. Her work plays with the subtle intricacies of human connection and endeavors to reimagine our relationship to our bodies, each other and how we live together among the natural world.