Meredith McCarthy
New Zealand Artist
About
Meredith McCarthy
ARTIST JOURNEY
About the Artist
Meredith McCarthy is a Wellington-based New Zealand artist whose creative journey is deeply connected with her lifelong interest in the inner world, transformation and the restorative qualities of nature.
For Meredith, painting is much more than the creation of an image. It is a form of meditation, a way of slowing down, becoming completely present and allowing the outside world to become quiet for a while.
This relationship with creativity has developed alongside more than three decades of working with people as a clinical hypnotherapist. Throughout her professional life, Meredith has explored the ways in which people change, heal, grow and rediscover parts of themselves. Over time, she came to recognise that her art and therapeutic work were expressions of many of the same ideas.
Her paintings explore light and darkness, freedom and stillness, resilience, transformation and the wisdom that can be found when we reconnect with ourselves and the natural world.
From the Darkness into the Light
In 2022, Meredith presented her solo exhibition From the Darkness into the Light, a collection centred around lotus and water lily imagery. The lotus became an important symbol within her work, representing the possibility of emerging from difficult or darker places and continuing to grow towards the light.
Sanctuary continues that journey. The lotus remains, but is now joined by the birds and landscapes of Aotearoa New Zealand, bringing together Meredith's enduring themes of transformation, freedom, belonging and stillness.
A creative journey from darkness into light, and from movement into stillness.