Hey everyone!
I am writing this at the heels of a successful first solo show for the Monochrome Corral Collection, which released last weekend. I am so full of gratitude and excitement!
The show was about a month in the making, while the art itself was about three months in the making. I had a lot of “firsts” with this show, including learning how to frame my own work in floater frames, select a coffee menu, market an art show, paint an A-Frame, curate my own exhibition, and more.
I’ve been honing my monochromatic painting since early 2025 and this show was a culmination of what I have learned during that process. I wanted to focus on western silhouettes that hold meaning to me, like horses I’ve had the pleasure of riding, my sister’s cowgirl hat, and my Dad’s boot.
This collection is just as much a study of color as it is subject, as I only used one color to paint each piece. Each color emanates its own quality and behaves very differently on the canvas and that was a fun learning curve in and of itself.
This work is heavily gestural as I have to quickly take paint off the canvas to achieve the lighter hues you see in each painting. The quick gestures ended up giving the work a more blurred, etherial, and impressionistic quality.
A fun fact that surprises people is that there is no use of white in this collection, just the different tonal hues of one color.
I used the ends of brushes and q-tips to create the finer highlights, such as the horses eyelashes, the bow on a hat, and the snakeskin pattern on the boot.
The solo showcase was incredible, and I got to meet so many wonderful new people and talk through the work. The whole event felt like a warm hug, thanks to the free coffee, homemade cookies, candles, incense, and flowers. I was proud to produce an event that was so full of warmth.
If you made it out to Monochrome Corral, thank you so much. I can’t wait to see who this work ends up with!
xoxo Meg
