Statement
Megan Hazen is an acrylic painter on wood panels. Recently, she has began incorporating wood burning into these paintings, as a way to add another layer of dimension to the images. Hazen's paintings are of animals and places that remind her of home. Each piece is a part of a memory that makes up a whole.
The experience of painting fuels my passion for life and the creation of new memories in the constant search for inspiration.
BIO
Born in Renfrew Ontario, Megan Hazen is a 2017 graduate of OCADU in Toronto with a BFA with distinction. Now based in Burlington, Hazen has exhibited in both indoor and outdoor shows around the Ottawa Valley, Toronto, Florence (Italy) and the Halton Region. In 2014, Megan was a finalist in the So You Want to be an Artist national youth competition, thereby having the opportunity to have a painting displayed in Ottawa’s National Gallery of Canada. Hazen has worked with the Renfrew Victoria Hospital on a fundraising design for the Tree of Lights, as well as took part in the Leaf for Life fundraiser for the Joseph Brant Hospital. Megan has participated in the Toronto Outdoor Art Fair, both in person (2019) and online (2021). In 2020, Hazen was a contestant on the inaugural season of Landscape Artist of the Year Canada on CBC. Since Summer of 2022, she began working an an occasional assistant with Smilezone Foundation to paint murals for children’s hospitals, wards, and mental health centers. Megan Hazen’s work is acrylic on wood panels, often focusing on animals and places that remind the artist of home and family.