MEG HOLGATE
Meg Holgate's paintings are meditations on the quiet perfection of the natural world. Working with delicate veils of muted color, subtle line, and thoughtful composition, she creates pieces that balance light and shadow, stillness and movement, intimacy and expansiveness. Her work is less about documenting a place and more about capturing a fleeting moment of beauty and the emotional resonance it leaves behind.
Raised between New York and London during the 1960's, Holgate developed an early fascination with both the Old Masters and the emerging voices of mid-century modernism. These influences continue to inform her visual language, which is grounded in a lifelong study of art, philosophy, and creative practice. Through painting, she finds a space of serenity and possibility, inviting viewers to embark on their own personal journey through her work.
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SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 i.e Gallery, Edison, WA
2023 Schack Art Center (with Steve Klein, Everett, WA
2022 Museum of Northwest Art (with Steve Klein), La Conner, WA
2019 Perry and Carlson Gallery, Mount Vernon, WA
2017 Museo, Whidbey Island, WA
2015 Abmeyer + Wood, Seattle, WA
2014-2015 Museum of Glass, Tacoma, WA
2012 Friesen Abmeyer Fine Art, Seattle, WA
2010 Pacini Lubel Gallery, Seattle, WA
2008 Pacini Lubel Gallery, Seattle, WA
2007 Lieutenant Governor’s Art Council, Olympia, WA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025 Museo, Whidbey Island, WA
2022 Museo, Whidbey Island, WA
2021 Schack Arts Center, Everett, WA
2021 Arts Alive, La Conner, WA
2020 Museo, Whidbey Island, WA
2019 Schack Arts Center, Everett, WA
2019 Museo, Whidbey Island, WA
2017 FORUM Arts, La Conner, WA
2017 ACME Creative, Anacortes, WA
2017 Museo, Whidbey Island, WA
2016 Museo, Whidbey Island, WA
2014-2015 Museum of Northwest Art, La Conner, WA
2015 Abmeyer + Wood, Seattle WA
2014 Abmeyer + Wood, Seattle, WA
2013 The Rainier Club, Seattle, WA
2013 Campbell River Art Gallery, Campbell River, BC
2012 The Rainier Club, Seattle, WA
2011 Pacini Lubel Gallery, Seattle, WA
2010 Rainier Club, Seattle, WA
2009 Museo, Whidbey Island, WA
2008 Pacini Lubel Gallery, Seattle, WA
2007 Pacini Lubel Gallery, Seattle, WA
2006 Pacini Lubel Gallery, Seattle, WA
CORPORATE & PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
University Hospital, Beachwood, OH
The Polyclinic, Seattle, WA
Office of the Lieutenant Governor, Olympia, WA
Swedish Medical Center, Seattle, WA
Intiman Theater, Seattle, WA
Associates in Behavioral Health, Seattle, WA
Brooks Army Medical Center, San Antonio, TX
Jewish Family Services, Seattle, WA
PUBLICATIONS
La Conner Community News, 2026
Project, the Wabash project, Volume 3, 2024
Spark, Humanities Washington, Issue 1, 2024
Daily Herald, March 25, 2023
Cascadia Daily News, March 24, 2022
Salish Current, May 4, 2022
The Olympian, March 7, 2014, ‘Trio of new exhibits at Tacoma museum dives into poetics of glass’, by Rosemary Ponnekanti
South Sound Arts blog ‘Visual Edge: "Coastal Alchemy" at Museum of Glass Pacific Northwest in painting, sculpture and poetry‘ by Alec Clayton April 28, 2014
The Seattle Times, June 15, 2012, ‘Artists Holgate and Becker-Black transcend the limits of landscape and portraiture’, by Michael Upchurch
INVITATIONAL EXHIBITIONS
2025 Museum of Northwest Art Invitational Auction, La Conner, WA
2024 Museum of Northwest Art Invitational Auction, La Conner, WA
2023 Museum of Northwest Art Invitational Auction, La Conner, WA
2022 Museum of Northwest Art Invitational Auction, La Conner, WA
2021 Museum of Northwest Art Invitational Auction, La Conner, WA
2020 Museum of Northwest Art Invitational Auction, La Conner, WA
2019 Museum of Northwest Art Invitational Auction, La Conner, WA
2017 Museum of Northwest Art Invitational Auction, La Conner, WA
2016 Gage Academy Invitational Auction, Seattle WA
2014 Gage Academy Invitational Auction, Seattle, WA
2011 Tibet Fund Invitational Art Auction, New York, NY
2011 Gage Academy Invitational Auction, Seattle, WA
2011 ArtsEast 24-hour invitational competition, Issaquah, WA
2009 Poncho, Juried Art Auction, Poncho Invitational Auction, Seattle, WA
2008 Espy Foundation Invitational, Seattle WA
SPECIAL PROJECTS
2026 Curfuffle, Skagit Valley College
2025 Curfuffle, WA
2025 Earth Creative.org, Worldwide
2022- Earth Creative.org, Worldwide
2020 Gatherings Project, Patricia Rovzar Gallery, Seattle WA
2020 Gail Severn Gallery, Sun Valley, ID
2019 Salmon School Ambassadors, Schack Arts Center, Everett, WA
EDUCATION
2025 Pilchuck Glass School, with Steve Klein and Richard Parrish
2019 Pilchuck Glass School, with Steve Klein and Richard Parrish
2016 North Lands Creative, Scotland with Steve Klein and Richard Parrish
2015 Pilchuck Glass School, with Steve Klein and Richard Parrish
2014 New Mexico glass art residency at Bullseye and Ghost Ranch with Steve Klein and Richard Parrish
2014 Workshop at Pratt Fine Arts Center, Seattle, WA with Cappy Thompson, Dick Weiss and Walt Lieberman
2012 Workshop at Pratt Fine Arts Center, Seattle, WA with Whiting Tennis
1975 Associate of Arts, Pine Manor College, Chestnut Hill, MA