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Megan Hepburn: Banana Dust

What would provoke a painter to dabble in perfumery?

In 2010, Megan Hepburn received the Joseph Plaskett Award for excellence in painting, and in 2015 she was shortlisted for the rbc Painting Competition. Her abstract oil paintings employ vibrant colours that add subtle movement and drama to otherwise dark and arrested palettes. The works lead you to humid environments in shades of green, and dimly lit, sophisticated spaces with purple, red and deep warm tones.

When Hepburn and a number of other painters were surveyed for a feature on Canadian painting in , the first thing they were asked was to describe

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