- Sheila McClean
Sheila McClean, RUA, [ [http://www.ruaonline.com/RUA%20associate%20Sheila%20McClean.htm RUA Associate Sheila McClean] Royal Ulster Academy, Northern Ireland. Retrieved
2 November 2006. ] is an Irish painter, whose work is in theimpressionist style.Life and work
Sheila McClean was originally from
Moville and is now living inDerry . She paints the land and sea around her.Derek Hill , a great admirer of her work, said, "Her paintings capture the Donegal we all feel in retrospect".Joseph McWilliams , PPRUA, said, "Her landscapes are "painted" landscapes, her boglands are expressive marks of paint, on richly textured surfaces redolent of bog cotton and dank brown pools..... Her work reflects a deep understanding of both place and paint".Commenting on her most recent one woman exhibition McClean stated:
"Painting for me is a necessary means of self-expression. My desire as a painter is to establish a relationship between intuitive imagery, and a spontaneous method of painting. I try to achieve this, through a combination of economic statements, which are personal rather than purely descriptive and keeping myself aware of the life and integrity of the paint itself."
"Paint is the image. Image is the paint"
Collections
* National Self Portrait Collection,
Limerick .
* Derek Hill Collection, Co.Donegal .
* D.F.P (NI Civil Service).
*UTV Collection,Belfast .
* The Harverty Trust.
*Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) Offices, Belfast.
*UNISON Collection, NI & UK.Commissions
*
Stations of the Cross , St. Pious X Church,Moville , Co. Donegal.
* Belfast Calendar 1991Further reading
*cite book|author=ROWAN, Alistair.|title=The Buildings of Ireland: North West Ulster|location=Yale University | publisher=Printing Press|year=2003-reprint|id=ISBN 0-300-09667-4
*cite book|author=LANDSCAPES|title=North and South: Art of the State|location=Dublin | publisher=Stationery Office for OPW: Printing Press|year=1997|id=ISBN 0-7076-4917-X (Catalogue of exhibition which opened in the Glebe Gallery, Churchill; artists include Sheila McClean.ee also
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List of painters
*List of Irish artists References
External links
* [http://www.gordon-gallery.com/Sheila%20McClean.html Sheila McClean at the Gordon Gallery]
* [http://www.ruaonline.com/RUA%20associate%20Sheila%20McClean.htm Royal Ulster Academy of Arts]
* [http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/lifestyle/arts/story.jsp?story=620798 Article on Recent Exhibition ] Belfast Telegraph (Subscription)
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