Megan Wood is an Edinburgh-based artist whose work explores the shifting boundaries between memory, place, and abstraction. Influenced by landscapes and the natural world, she often begins with photographic material-negatives, cyanotypes, and flash photography, to capture fleeting impressions of light, space, and atmosphere. These fragmented images become starting points for layered, intuitive paintings that speak to the way we remember: imperfectly, emotionally, and through a personal lens.

Using oil, acrylic, ink, charcoal, and found materials like sand or salt, Megan builds tactile surfaces that evoke weathered textures and sedimented time. Her process embraces unpredictability- marks are layered, erased, and reworked, creating a dynamic interplay between sharp focus and soft blur, clarity and dissolution. This tension mirrors the way memories of places often return to us: part image, part feeling.

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Drawing on both natural and urban environments, Megan’s work is rooted in a sense of place, but never pinned down to a single narrative. Her compositions emerge organically, often balancing bold flashes of colour with muted, earthy tones. The result is work that feels at once grounded and ephemeral- evoking something familiar, yet just out of reach.

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Megan studied at the Glasgow School of Art and Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design. Her work has been exhibited in group and solo shows, and is held in private collections and public spaces