Meg Perotti is a Northern California based fine artist working in botanical painting, illustration, and photography. Her work is rooted in close observation of the natural world, the human experience and an attunement to the unnoticed.

Alongside her studio practice, she teaches workshops that invite others into slower ways of seeing and making.

Her background in photography continues to inform her work, shaping a long-standing fascination with documentation, nostalgia, and the quiet ways people interact with the world around them.

She lives and works in Northern California with her husband and three children.

Artist. Teacher. Knowledge seeker.

Garden Studio

I work in my little garden studio with a dutch door painted my favorite shade of dusty green. It is always a mess but it’s mine. It changes with the seasons and is my most favorite in the spring when my garden is bursting and I can open the door and listen to the rain hitting the rocks outside.

life lately, on instagram

It’s another rainy day here in the Bay Area and even though we homeschool I decided this week we’d take a proper winter break. It’s meant lots of time for me to regroup and make some art for myself. These sweet daffodils swaying in
“Be true. Despite the platitudinous precipice in which they teeter, embrace without irony or apology the conceits of beauty, hope, joy, honesty, and, always affection. Leave your fearless trace, dove sta memoria, because beauty matters.”
So looking forward to the week ahead - rainy days in my studio are the best. Two posts in one day because these little guys made me smile today. For the first time in a long time the kids left me all by my lonesome long enough to start and complete
Messing around in the studio this moody Sunday. I’ve never felt as though I’ve mastered these sweet pansy’s and I keep revisiting them like I’m being haunted. So much that I made them the subject of my Brush + Bloom series I
There are two things I’m especially passionate about in this season: continued learning and gathering in community with others - especially when that happens in a room full of like minded humans, sitting around tables with paper, paint, water,
January moments so far that felt like ✨life✨ Oxalis study Curio cabinet in the hallway 3d printer fail that was more interesting than anything I’ve seen printed yet Homeschool artists at work Brushes in my studio Tween looking stunning and
January 13th 6-8pm $75 Join me this January for something slow, intentional, and quietly magical - a watercolor meditation series We’ve been painting blooms all year and I think we need a month to just let loose, get wild, be crazzyyyy..... wh