Who is Megan Carty?
Contemporary artist Megan Carty creates crowned bird paintings, abstract floral art, and bold colorful originals. Shop museum-quality fine art prints, framed canvas wall art, and original paintings. For Palm Beach chic decor, coastal wall art, preppy home aesthetic. Perfect for gallery walls, bedroom art, living room decor. Featured by interior designers. Carty is a New England based artist shipping nationwide.
Megan Carty (b. 1978) was born in Portland, Maine, U.S.A. She creates contemporary paintings that explore strength, presence, and the courage to take up space. Crowned birds that strut. Colors that hum. Work that invites vulnerability with a dare to be brave. Based with her family in the verdant New England countryside just outside Boston, Megan lives and creates amidst the beauty of nature.
Carty holds a BFA from Syracuse University’s College of Visual and Performing Arts: School of Art & Design. Her abstract art during her ongoing 25 year career thus far has been featured by Anthropologie, CBS Sunday Morning, Minted, Homegoods, Candlefish, In Her Studio Magazine, Artfully Walls, Michaels Crafts, Modern Luxury Interiors Boston Magazine, Artists & Illustrators Magazine, SHLTR, Morning Honey, The Spruce, The Jealous Curator, Maine Home & Design Magazine, Maine Cottage, the Improper Bostonian Magazine, Day’s Jewelers, Chris Loves Julia, The English Room blog, Honey & Fitz Collection, Renown Health, Hebrew Rehabilitation Center, and Sloan Kettering Memorial Hospital. Her original paintings reside in private collections in both the USA and internationally. She has exhibited her work in three solo shows. Carty’s paintings can conveniently be purchased directly from the artist via her online gallery, www.megancartyart.com.
Carty offers many options to collect her work via one-of-a-kind original paintings, Giclée prints framed canvases, and unique customized art. She also collaborates well with interior designers and art consultants. All are welcome to visit the Groton, Massachusetts studio by appointment; or she will happily meet you via online chat!
ARTIST STATEMENT
Megan Carty’s work doesn’t ask for attention; it commands it. Her paintings move between figurative and abstract, using color, gesture, and symbolism to explore strength, presence, and emotional range. Crowned birds appear as recurring motifs, not as mascots. Through her brush she creates a shorthand that is watchful, resilient, and wise. Canvases that are forever regal and always irreverent. She is a trained painter whose work moves fluidly between the symbolic and the abstract, anchored by a confident command of color and composition. She explores themes of resilience, self-possession, and emotional vitality without slipping into cliché, creating works that are vivid but controlled, expressive yet intentional. Her entire body of work is built from a distinctly modern sensibility, that balances play with precision without being precious about any of it. Her birds strut and her colors hum, with her finishing pieces capturing a certain musicality. Ultimately her artistry is one that invites vulnerability with a dare to be brave.
“We aren’t meant to be perfect. Each painting is a wink and a hug reminding you that you’re loved.”
To listen to Megan Carty’s story and learn more about her, click the link to listen to my interview with Youngman Brown in his popular podcast "Your Creative Push."
