Margaret Meredith (Schley)

artist/creative director 

B. 1989 / grew up in Richmond, VA

2012 / graduated from the College of Charleston 

currently works out of my studio in Columbus, GA

Life once felt like moving through shifting weather — moments of calm, turbulence, and sudden clarity. Through it, I came to understand that nothing stays fixed; both beauty and difficulty are transient, and that transience gives them weight. 

My work emerges from this awareness. I explore the movement of emotion, memory, and energy — the way they transform before we can define them. The abstract botanicals reflect nature’s own rhythm of growth, decay, and renewal: unpredictable, imperfect, and full of grace. 

As each painting evolves through layered reversals — the background often painted last, allowing earlier marks to surface unexpectedly. These traces become quiet records of change and persistence.

*Happy and Fleeting* is a meditation on impermanence — an ode to transformation, stillness, and the fleeting joy that endures within constant change.