Slow down to notice the details.
Life is busy and chaotic. My life as an art teacher and mother of three twice-exceptional wonders makes it all the more full. As my husband likes to say I need to get out “into the green” regularly to be my best self. My time in the green, hiking, walking, and resting helps me to slow down, breathe, and intentionally observe the little things that are so often missed.
My painting practice is my slow observation of the quiet details that exist in creation. I paint the things I notice while in the green, or I’m outside in the garden playing with my kids, or while watering my house plants on a stormy day. I paint the pause to notice the sunset. I paint the buzz of a bee at a flower, and the curl of the fern as it unfurls in the spring. I paint the light streaming through the clouds and the tiny mushroom sprouting after the rain.
I also paint things as a way to process big feelings. I paint the pain I feel seeing the suffering in our world. I paint the oppression that is exacerbated when funding is cut to the kids with the least access. I paint the hope I cling to when the world seems too dark.
Megan Tribble has loved making art since she was a child. Painting has been a passion since her youth. She is happiest when she is helping other people discover their own artistic passion. She attended Humboldt State University of California and earned a bachelors of arts in Visual Arts with a double emphasis in Studio Art and Art Education. She went on to earn her teaching credential and has taught art for the last 17 years in public schools, first in California and then in Washington State. She currently lives in the Pacific North West with her husband, three boys, and a very obnoxious corgi.