Meghan Weeks is a representational landscape painter who has worked and exhibited on Nantucket for over twenty years. She joined the Artists Association of Nantucket (AAN) at age 14, becoming one of the organization’s youngest members. Drawing and painting through her adolescence, she studied Architecture at Yale University and Museum Curating at the Courtauld Institute of Art in London. After graduating, she entered work in the cultural heritage field in the U.K. and later in Boston, continuing to paint and show her own art professionally. In 2022, she decided to pursue a full-time career as an artist.
An enthusiastic plein air painter, Weeks begins most of her pieces outside and on site, working in all seasons to capture the experience of observing the built and natural landscapes of New England and beyond. When she returns to the studio, she uses information gathered outdoors to refine smaller paintings and develop larger works. She believes that painting the world as it is today documents the human imprint upon our landscape, and our ability and responsibility to protect it.
Meghan is a member of the Artists Association of Nantucket, The Copley Society of Art in Boston, The Rockport Art Association, Rockport Massachusetts and the Bryan Memorial Gallery in Vermont. Her recent awards include:
- Gold Medal, New England Regional Juried Exhibition, The Guild of Boston Artists (2026)
- Ginger Greenblatt Memorial Award for excellence in painting, Rockport Art Association & Museum (2026)
- First Place, Frank Swift Chase Awards, Artists Association of Nantucket (2023 & 2025)
- Michael Harding Materials Award, Hudson Valley Art Association 92nd National Exhibition (2025)
- Alden Bryan Memorial Award for Best Traditional Oil Landscape, the Copley Society of Art, Boston (2025)
- Christopher A. Hamilos Memorial Award for Best in Show in Any Medium, Rockport Art Association & Museum National Exhibition (2024)
- Chipp Davis Wells & Amee B. Davis Memorial Award for excellence in painting, Rockport Art Association & Museum (2024)
- Antonio Cirino Memorial Award for excellence in oil of an American landscape, seascape, or still life, Rockport Art Association & Museum (2024)
- William Welch Painting Award, Artists Association of Nantucket (2023)
- Pat Gardner En Plein Air Award, Artists Association of Nantucket (2023)