Sheila McClean

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For the British academic and humanist, see Sheila McLean.

Irish Artist, Sheila McClean

Sheila McClean, RUA,^[1] is a notable Irish painter, whose impressionist style painting has led to her be described as a "painter's painter". Originally from Moville and now living in Derry, she paints the land and sea around her.

The late 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"

"Greencastle Harbour" - Oil on board, 14" x 14"

1 Collections
2 Commissions
3 Further reading
4 See also
5 References
6 External links

[edit] Collections

National Self Portrait Collection, Limerick.
Derek Hill Collection, Co. Donegal.
D.F.P (NI Civil Service).
UTV Collection, Belfast.
The Harverty Trust.
SDLP Offices, Belfast.
UNISON Collection, NI & UK.

[edit] Commissions

Stations of the Cross, St. Pious X Church, Moville, Co. Donegal.
Belfast Calendar 1991

[edit] Further reading

ROWAN, Alistair. (2003-reprint). The Buildings of Ireland: North West Ulster. Yale University: Printing Press. ISBN 0-300-09667-4. LANDSCAPES (1997). North and South: Art of the State. Dublin: Stationery Office for OPW: Printing Press. ISBN 0-7076-4917-X. (Catalogue of exhibition which opened in the Glebe Gallery, Churchill; artists include Sheila McClean.