Meg Lagodzki immerses herself in the forests surrounding her home, often painting or sketching outdoors, capturing the landscape’s essence through her distinctive paintings and layered acrylic collages. Lagodzki captures native flora and plays with the ever-shifting seasonal light. One standout piece features a beech tree’s pale, marcescent leaves, its trunk adorned by shield lichen, creating a mesmerizing glow against an ice-blue winter sky. In a summer scene, she portrays a lush grove of paw-paw saplings with layers of bright green and deep shadows, all gracefully dancing in dappled sunlight.
With a particular focus on caves, ravines, and abandoned limestone quarries, Lagodzki vividly portrays the delicate balance between human disruption of the land and nature's reclamation. She believes these reclaimed landscapes still resonate with great power in the human imagination, serving as a testament to the resilience of nature and the cyclical dance of disruption, ruin, and renewal.
