Megan Albright

Megan Albright paints from a second-floor room off a Savannah square, where sunlight filters through the live oaks and drifts across the floor in moving patches. Before she turned to the easel full time, she spent six years arranging flowers at a shop on Bull Street, and that work taught her how color behaves next to color: how a violet can make a yellow sing, how a cool green can make a petal seem warmer. She later earned her BFA in Painting from the Savannah College of Art and Design, and the florist’s eye has stayed with her ever since.

Working in oil on stretched canvas with filbert brushes, Megan paints fast and with loaded brushes, breaking her greens into violets and golds so the shadows glow and the blooms seem to shimmer in the Southern heat. Her impressionist, painterly florals and garden scenes bring a sense of dappled light and warmth to living rooms, sunny breakfast nooks, bedrooms, and entryways, anywhere that could use a little of Savannah’s soft, humid glow. Below are Albright’s canvases in our shop, ready to hang.