Megan Ellen MacDonald 'Trolling In The Shallows' Print Available

Artist: Megan Ellen MacDonald
Title: Trolling In The Shallows
Medium: Giclee Print
Size: 20 x 24 Inches
Edition: 40
Price: $125

Megan Ellen MacDonald is a Canadian oil painter known for her intricate and glossy explorations of gendered aesthetics. Her work often utilizes the visual language of porcelain figurines, kitsch objects, and synthetic materials to investigate the intersections of nature, power, and femininity. By arranging 3D-modeled digital environments before translating them to canvas, she achieves a hyper-realized finish that mimics the surface of glazed ceramic or liquid resin.

The artist frequently employs a palette of saccharine pastels and deep, bruised jewel tones. Her compositions often feature recurring motifs such as strawberries, bows, and delicate fauna, which are subverted through tight framing or suggestive positioning. This method creates a tension between the perceived innocence of the objects and a subtle undercurrent of desire or dominance. By rendering these traditionally feminine icons with monumental scale and technical precision, she challenges the historical dismissal of decorative or domestic subjects in high art.

MacDonald lives and works in Toronto, where she continues to refine her process of blending digital technology with traditional oil painting techniques. Her pieces act as a mirror to modern consumer culture, reflecting how identity is often constructed through the collection and display of artifice. The resulting paintings are both seductive and unsettling, inviting viewers to question the hierarchy of taste and the ways in which softness can be used as a vessel for strength. Her practice remains a vital investigation into the artificiality of the natural world and the enduring power of the gaze.