Nicky Kehoe - Margaret and Bird

Margaret and Bird, Meghan Adkins  2026

Measures: 17" W x 2" D x 21" H

Acrylic on wood panel.

Meghan Adkins is an Oakland-based painter whose work explores forgotten landscapes and the emotional architecture of place. Her paintings often revisit abandoned farms, ghost towns, and historic spaces, layering these settings with reflections on memory, history, and belonging.

Many of Adkins’ recent paintings are connected to a novel she is currently writing about a painter whose work emerges from mysterious visions of landscapes that seem both remembered and unknown. The black dog who appears throughout the paintings, Patterson, is the painter’s epilepsy service dog. As the series unfolds, Patterson becomes a quiet witness within these imagined landscapes, grounding the paintings in the lived experience of the artist within the story. Through this intertwining of narrative and image, Adkins creates a body of work where memory, landscape, and story quietly converge.