{"id":8,"date":"2013-04-12T21:52:52","date_gmt":"2013-04-12T21:52:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meganbeland.com\/?page_id=8"},"modified":"2021-09-21T20:01:40","modified_gmt":"2021-09-21T20:01:40","slug":"about-me","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/meganbeland.com\/?page_id=8","title":{"rendered":"Artist Bio"},"content":{"rendered":"<header>\n<div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1478\" src=\"http:\/\/meganbeland.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Screen-Shot-2020-04-09-at-4.09.41-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"871\" height=\"581\" srcset=\"http:\/\/meganbeland.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Screen-Shot-2020-04-09-at-4.09.41-PM.png 871w, http:\/\/meganbeland.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Screen-Shot-2020-04-09-at-4.09.41-PM-300x200.png 300w, http:\/\/meganbeland.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Screen-Shot-2020-04-09-at-4.09.41-PM-768x512.png 768w, http:\/\/meganbeland.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Screen-Shot-2020-04-09-at-4.09.41-PM-250x167.png 250w, http:\/\/meganbeland.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Screen-Shot-2020-04-09-at-4.09.41-PM-700x467.png 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 871px) 100vw, 871px\" \/><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<h5>Megan Beland is A Canadian Born Artist who completed her study with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University Of Alberta. Working primarily in acrylic, she is now a visual artist who currently specializes in creating custom and professionally crafted pet portraits.\u00a0As well as a conceptual and visual fine artist, she specialize in painting and intermedia art practises. Her focus is in performance and creating wearable art, serving as an extension of identity and experience. The physical interaction of the art with the body functions as the performance element, the temporal and temporary portion which only exists in the moment.\u00a0She is also interested in how the passage of time impacts people, as well as how things exist within the context of their environments. Inspiration often comes from myths and fairytales, combining metaphor and reality.\u00a0Childhood provides her with many found objects, also a source of inspiration and meaning, while creating a dialogue that generates an awareness of what is perceived as the \u201cother \u201d in society. This awareness questions what is considered normal.<\/h5>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/meganbeland.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/IMG_0879.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1035\" src=\"http:\/\/meganbeland.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/IMG_0879.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"418\" height=\"560\" srcset=\"http:\/\/meganbeland.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/IMG_0879.jpg 1936w, http:\/\/meganbeland.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/IMG_0879-224x300.jpg 224w, http:\/\/meganbeland.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/IMG_0879-250x334.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 418px) 100vw, 418px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\">Me and My dad age 4<\/h6>\n<\/header>\n<h5><a href=\"http:\/\/meganbeland.com\/?page_id=27\"><u>Why A Cloud\u00a0<\/u><\/a><\/h5>\n<h5><a href=\"http:\/\/meganbeland.com\/?page_id=642\"><u>Contact Me At<\/u><\/a><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Megan Beland is A Canadian Born Artist who completed her study with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University Of Alberta. Working primarily in acrylic, she is now a visual artist who currently specializes in creating custom and professionally crafted pet portraits.\u00a0As well as a conceptual and visual fine artist, she specialize in painting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1478,"parent":1813,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/meganbeland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/meganbeland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/meganbeland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/meganbeland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/meganbeland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":51,"href":"http:\/\/meganbeland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2299,"href":"http:\/\/meganbeland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions\/2299"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/meganbeland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1813"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/meganbeland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/meganbeland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}