My name is Megan Hale and I am from Alexandria, Louisiana. I currently reside in Pineville, Louisiana. I consider my style as American Scene, focusing on scenes of everyday life that encompass the human condition and experiences. I like to find beauty and mystery in the mundane. I want to depict everyday life around us as a beautiful composition. Everyday life involves all aspects of human conditions and experiences, whether it be joy, pain, anxiety, or comfort. The goal of my work is to depict color and form in an aesthetically pleasing way while evoking a sense of nostalgia and contemplation. I want to use art to interpret the many ways we overcome and grow in our environment and life. The main subject of my work is scenes of everyday life, whether it be landscape, portrait, still life, or a combination of the three. Before I begin a painting, I search the environment around me to find a pleasing compositional vignette. The process of making my art begins with a sketch, then an underpainting. Since color, light, and shadow are often my inspiration, I will choose a color palette based on the subject and the most prominent colors in the subject matter. This is sometimes an attempt to capture complete realism or can be affected by mood. I have worked with oil, acrylic, pastels, charcoal, and pencil. By nostalgically exploring the normative environment, I hope to engage the viewers' senses and memories of places, things and feelings forgotten or repressed. I choose these methods as a means to capture our everyday environment and invoke a thoughtful response to these fleeting moments that would otherwise go unnoticed.