‘Painting’s dangerous work!’ The artist whose tools are brushes and power sanders

Megan Rooney painstakingly creates works with layer upon layer of paint – and attacks them with agrinder in between. Ahead of a beguiling new show, our writer braves a studio tour‘I’m just trying to get one step ahead of my paintings,” says Megan Rooney, who is surrounded by the vibrant, gestural abstract works in her studio. She moves through the space restlessly as we chat, rocking on to her tiptoes and arching her arms through the air in an echo of the curving strokes