Megan Adams Brooks

Megan Adams Brooks was destined to be creative from the start, heavily influenced by her grandmother’s fine taste and her father’s extensive art collection. She was drawn to painting and expressing herself at an early age. After obtaining a BFA in painting and drawing at Southern Methodist University, she went on to receive her Master of Fine Art at University of North Texas in Fibers.

Megan’s processes include paintings on silk and monoprints on paper of her silkscreen paintings, an original and innovative medium. She incorporates fiber techniques, such as weaving and embroidery throughout her works, as well as repurposing her silks into unique collages, patterns and motifs. She draws her greatest inspiration from nature and is passionate about color — her studio is a mirage of tonal swatches, palettes, and scribbles. 

Brooks lives in Dallas with her husband and two children.  She is usually surrounded by her large extended family — and has a quiet confidence that all of her gifts come from above. 

Artist's Statement

The unknown of experimenting with materials and processes is what inspires me to create. I often find the process takes over completely, leaving me little control, yet resulting in something entirely organic. Even though the result is unknown when I begin to create, I am fortunate to have an aesthetic that allows me to intuitively communicate with colors, patterns, and textures.

As an artist I don’t wake up every day with an inspiration to take into the studio. I frequently go to my studio to reflect, or pray or to find purpose in a place of solitude. More often than not, inspiration finds me here. I’m often working on multiple pieces at once, and I love how an idea spurred by one piece results in something that completes another. I approach the creative process for each medium distinctively, but they often overlap.

Each medium I work with dictates its process to a degree. I create within the parameters of what the medium allows. My works on paper are more about line than color, more about movement than interpretation. I’m exploring mixed-media on paper right now, which is an invigorating new means of expression using remnant materials from my other works. Painting on silk is the most delicate, least forgiving, and greatest color abounding medium I have worked with thus far. It allows experimentation through endless application techniques and variables. Each stage of the painting brings about unexpected results that still excite me and allow me to continue growing as an artist.

While my creative process is always evolving, I continue to be surprised by the unexpected and endless opportunities to be inspired.  Ultimately, my goal is for the viewer to find beauty and satisfaction within the chaos and imperfections of my spontaneous and sporadic mark-makings.