Kevin Meehan

          As a young child, I spent time with my grandfather who enjoyed painting art. Watching over his shoulder, I became enthralled with the process of applying paint to a surface; the outcome being a representation or expression. I was captivated by the art books he had...Vermeer, Rembrandt and Wyeth. While turning the pages, I imagined the process of painting like these masters. As the years passed by, my desire to paint ebbed and flowed; in junior college I took art classes for the sake of accumulating credits.

     The concept of arranging a world in an art piece in which we humans would not witness intrigued me. A dog raising his voice in song with a moose or a child walking a whale are the subjects I found to excite the imagination of the viewer. My interest was heightened by combining realism and using watercolor as a medium.

      The works I create unlock the imagination, inviting the viewer to see with the eyes of a child. I find the watercolor medium provides a certain luminosity which other mediums do not. With this, I feel it escalates a world often unseen by adults; a world often lost to the rigors of outgrowing our childhood.