Dreamlike paintings and prints layered with color, texture, and quiet joy.
There’s a softness to Megan Joy’s work that feels both grounding and transportive, like stepping into a world where colors glow a little brighter and everything moves at a gentler pace. Her compositions are rich with texture and layered detail, balancing whimsical abstraction with moments pulled from nature, memory, and emotion.
Working across painting and printmaking, Megan creates pieces that feel deeply tactile and alive. Her linocut prints begin as hand carved linoleum blocks, printed slowly and intentionally using only the pressure of her hands rather than a mechanical press. The process allows room for experimentation, each carved block becoming a starting point for endless variations in color, surface, and composition. Alongside her prints, she creates oil paintings built through layered marks and shifting forms that invite viewers deeper into the imagined worlds they hold.
Her newest works blur the line between painting and collage, beginning as abstract oil paintings on paper before being cut apart and rearranged into entirely new compositions. No matter the medium, there’s a sense of movement and discovery running through the work, as though each piece is unfolding in real time.
Megan’s visual language is unmistakable for its palette: rich forest greens, grassy yellows, sky blues, vivid pinks, and soft buttery tones woven together into scenes that feel joyful, organic, and emotionally warm. Inspired by growth, connection, and the natural world, her work carries a dreamlike quality that feels both playful and deeply personal.
Most of her pieces are created beneath the skylight of her apartment studio, accompanied by the often distracting presence of her two cats. It’s a space filled with shifting projects and constant experimentation, where paintings dry beside prints, sketches, and whatever new material she’s currently exploring.
What You'll Find at Bloom
Original oil paintings and hand printed linocuts, layered textures and vibrant, nature inspired palettes, and dream-like artwork full of warmth, color, and movement
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Why Bloom?
“I grew up close to Providence and the arts in the city were a huge inspiration to me growing up. On a recent trip home I stopped into Bloom and was excited to find this store that felt like a new generation of artists and artisans creating really exciting and beautiful work.” - Megan
Fun Fact
Megan is a self proclaimed ”serial craft hobbyist” and is always working on multiple projects at one given time. She often has a painting, a print, and a knitting or crochet project she switches between. This year she’s gotten into making her family and friends painted and collaged birthday crowns.