Jeanette Meehan was born in 1965 and grew up in Point La Haye, Newfoundland. In 1984 she began working as a self-described Girl Friday for Christopher Pratt in his Salmonier studio. Her early work (assisting with printmaking, priming canvases, stretching watercolour paper, and eventually underpainting), as well as the time she spent with Pratt, led her to a desire to make her own art.

Meehan now finds her subjects-executed in oil-in the rural landscape: houses, artifacts, fishing gear, flowers. “I paint subjects that appeal to me," she says: “things I find as I'm out walking, driving, remembering the day: the sun, the rain, the smell of the country-its mood and my own.”

Jeanette Meehan lives and works in Mount Carmel, Newfoundland.