Sheila McClean
Template:Short description Script error: No such module "For". Template:Use dmy dates Script error: No such module "infobox".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".Template:Main otherScript error: No such module "Check for clobbered parameters".Template:Wikidata image
Sheila McClean, RUA,[1] (13 August 1932 – 5 August 2016)[2] was an Irish painter, whose work was in the impressionist style.
Life and work
Sheila McClean was originally from Moville, County Donegal, Ireland and attended Thornhill College in Derry, Northern Ireland where she later lived. She painted 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, County 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, County Donegal.[3]
- Belfast Calendar 1991
Further reading
- Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- Script error: No such module "citation/CS1". (Catalogue of exhibition which opened in the Glebe Gallery, Churchill; artists include Sheila McClean.
See also
References
External links
- Royal Ulster Academy of Arts
- Article on Recent Exhibition Belfast Telegraph (Subscription)
Template:Authority control (arts)
- ↑ RUA Associate Sheila McClean Template:Webarchive Royal Ulster Academy, Northern Ireland. Retrieved 2 November 2006.
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- Pages with script errors
- 1932 births
- 2016 deaths
- Irish Impressionist painters
- 20th-century Irish painters
- 21st-century Irish painters
- Artists from County Donegal
- Members of the Royal Ulster Academy
- People educated at Thornhill College
- People from Moville
- 20th-century Irish women painters
- 21st-century Irish women painters