About Us
My name is Megan Arnold
I am a visual artist, floral designer, and tenured, professional graphic designer. I am working part-time as a floral designer, painting a classroom mural, and creating full-time in my home studio.
Currently, I am working on a volunteer mural project, painting an educational mural in my friends classroom, here in Staunton, Virginia.
I am
I am a visual artist, floral designer, and tenured, professional graphic designer. I am working part-time as a floral designer, painting a classroom mural, and creating full-time in my home studio.
Currently, I am working on a volunteer mural project, painting an educational mural in my friends classroom, here in Staunton, Virginia.
I am also working on a large painting and mixed media series that is inspired by my dreams and liminal experiences, is my art series “Sap of the Moonflower”, a future date will be shared for a showcase event.
I hope to use my time and these projects to expand on ways I can better give back, and to reconnect with my core values in my professional career.
My core values include: to strive to do your best work, authentically and to the best of your full abilities. This matters for the sake of excellence and the betterment of self through these sk
I hope to use my time and these projects to expand on ways I can better give back, and to reconnect with my core values in my professional career.
My core values include: to strive to do your best work, authentically and to the best of your full abilities. This matters for the sake of excellence and the betterment of self through these skills. It also is vital in contributing the most positive impact. This comes back around to, and compliments my ultimate pledge in design, to leverage my talents the best of my ability, to give back the most or provide genuine, sustained service, community, comfort, and inspiration to those in need.
I am interested in collaborating with new people and meaningful creative projects to be of joyful service for the good of all. I am currently open to working as a Graphic Designer and Visual Artist, and am available for a small (or big) freelance project, if one finds me! If there is something you think I may be well suited for or a resource to, please be encouraged to reach out.
About Us
A little more background:
I am a painter, graphic designer, illustrator, and above all, an artist. I worked professionally as a full-time graphic designer for the past 10 years at Custom Ink as Graphic Designer and Curator, and the Certified Financial Analyst's Institute (CFA) as contract Senior Graphic Designer.
I don’t use AI in any of my art, writing, or designs at any level.
I maintain executive faculty in and of my own creativity. Doing so holds my magnetism and structure to my creative processes and my creations, as I am my own creative channel and force.
I am a channel.
Outside of my past professional graphic design work, I have a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from George Mason University. I was a featured artist and painter at Camp Barefoot from 2011-2014. In addition to the legendary Camp Barefoot, I was a gallery artist and live painter at a few small festivals and at numerous live concert venues throughout Virginia, Maryland, and Washington D.C.
I can't wait to see what creative fun we'll have next!
Thank you for reading, and I look forward to connecting!
Megan Arnold
what I am up to now
Ocean Mural Project
PAINTING & ILLUSTRATION
PAINTING & ILLUSTRATION
CLASSROOM OCEAN MURAL: A VOLUNTEER PROJECT
FLORAL DESIGN
PAINTING & ILLUSTRATION
FLORAL DESIGN
FLORAL DESIGNER & ASSISTANT AT BRIN'S POSY
Dreams, Art, Healing
Sharing My Story
I dreamed of being an artist as a child, in addition to being a dolphin caregiver and astronomer/astrophysicist. My mother introduced me to the beauty of illustration, reading Jan Brett books with me and commenting on all the beautiful illustrated details, telling more and more with each further examination. In this, I found a creative force, at past times waning but ultimately insatiable.
My work is likely influenced by my lifelong want to create beautiful painted and illustrated worlds. Alice in Wonderland, A Wrinkle In Time, the Simpsons, Reading Rainbow, the Beatles, and the Grateful Dead, all joined in part for the development of my love of dreamscapes, psychedelic and mystical concepts, music, a love of nature, and outer space, and my ever-guiding, perpetual state of wonder and openness to the magic, love, and beauty of existence that surrounds us at all times. At age 13, on a whim of interest and seeking some semblance of direction on my path, I brought the copy of "Siddhartha" that had been sitting on a bookshelf in my parent's basement to Prospect Harbor, Maine on our family vacation.
Buddhism gives me very necessary guidance throughout my life. This was made profoundly so, as it served to be a post to lean on in 2022, when I spent January-April in the hospital, fighting for my life, and surviving near failure of my liver and acute liver and kidney injuries. I was given an odds answer fifty-fifty multiple times by my doctors, and during these “touch and go” periods I entered deep state meditation. The healing I have done physically and mentally, well, the words cumbersome, grueling, exalting, humbling, and transcendental, all come to mind. The gratitude I feel with each moment is one for which words fail me. I create in a space and energy deeply connected to these experiences, in hopes of bringing healing to others.
My hope is that in sharing my story and work with others, I may help them in their own healing, sharing my light and story of true hope. Radiating boundless love to all.
Thank you.
