“...Painting enchanted worlds in between. Where time doesn’t exist where there is no day or night, no good or evil, it’s these borderlands where I wander...”
“...My art is for little ones who are born with old souls and for big folks who have not forgotten how to see like a child...”
“...I want to create art where the mystical and the human converge. With creatures made from old magick, never too dark never too much light...”
“...I used to sculpt witches, trolls and gnomes as a little girl, from the dutch clay from the cornfield where I grew up. it's these Land Spirits and Beings that come out my brushes...”
“...I hope my paintings are like old stories told around a campfire, gently touching something within us that has been quietly waiting to be seen...”
“...My left hand is always dreaming when I paint. I can’t tell it where to go. I simply follow behind...”
“...Forever longing for dark earth. I search for muted moss tones and the deep shadows of the forest, where the world feels just a little more like home...”
“...I believe that, to be an artist, you must always keep creating not for success or applause, but for yourself...”
“...I hope my canvases are not merely paintings, but portals to long-forgotten worlds and the Spirits and Beings that dwell within them....”
“...A realm of willow, reed, and rye with buzzards circling high. Where mossy beings haunt the bark and spirits linger in the dark, of hollowed trees and tangled green, waiting only to be seen...”

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Meg Lemmens

About me

In her newest works, artist Meg Lemmens invites viewers to wander through the delicate borderlands between dream and reality. She is known for her rare ability to find beauty in darkness. Using deep, mossy tones, she creates worlds where the mystical and the human quietly converge.

Her enchanting landscapes and intimate portraits carry the melancholy of forgotten stories. Each piece feels like a fragment of a shadowed fairy tale that was never fully told.

Meg Lemmens was born under the September moon in the Dutch Low Lands, already clutching a pencil in her small left hand, a determined crease between her brows. From the very beginning, pens, pencils, and brushes were her magical instruments — tools through which she captured everything she saw and felt, translating it onto paper, wood, or any surface she encountered.

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