MEP is a British-American artist whose work drifts between presence and memory, realism and dream.

Educated first in Art History at SCAD and later in the rigorous traditions of Classical Realism at the Florence Academy of Art, she carries both the scholar’s gaze and the draftswoman’s hand.

Message from the artist:

My drawings and paintings form an atmospheric record of the world as it slips past; portraits of people, shadows of places, objects half-seen and wholly felt. My sketchbook practice is less a habit and more a quiet compulsion, a daily attempt to hold onto what’s fleeting, or at least wave to it on the way out.

My work is full of people and ghosts and objects pretending to be important. Everything’s a little foggy, a little golden, like a memory that’s not quite yours. My sun babies—those glowing little weirdos—show up a lot. They’re part icon, part in-joke, part diary entry. They’ve made their way onto arms and walls and into the lives of people who didn’t expect them—like most meaningful things.

I draw not to pin things down, but to let them float a little longer in the air.