Piece description from the artist
This piece was inspired by a found 1970s vintage postcard – softly faded, sun-bleached, and carrying that familiar sense of a place remembered rather than merely seen. The landscape is drawn from a hike I took with my family in Big Bend National Park a few years ago, a place whose light and quiet expanses linger log after you've left them.
In this painting, I wanted to explore how memory collapses time: how people return to the same vistas. decade after decade, each visitor layering their own story into the land. The figure – resting in the warmth of late day light – could belong to any era. She becomes a symbol of everyone who has paused in this very spot, breathing in the same desert air, letting the silence settle.
"Remembered Light" is about the places that stay with us, and the way they hold both our footsteps and the footsteps of those who came long before.
Meredith O'Neal is a Texas native who specializes in paintings depicting wildlife and the natural world. Though interested in art from a very young age, Meredith didn't take her first painting class until her freshman year of college at Texas State University. She received her undergraduate degree in both Painting and Photography a few years later. She then moved to California and received a masters degree in painting at the San Francisco Art Institute in 2012. Meredith has since moved back to Texas where she now lives and works near Austin as a full time artist with her husband and two young children. She enjoys traveling and spending most weekends on her family's ranch property in Huntsville, Texas. It is there that she finds a lot of her artistic inspiration and is often exploring the grounds in search of wildlife and collecting natural treasures such as feathers, cow bones, and plants for observation.
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