Vicki MacLean
Artist’s Statement
From artist's website:
"Having lived most of my life in rural Nova Scotia, my intimacy with the landscape has become the inspiration as well as the organizing structure of my paintings. I constantly strive (and struggle) to create an art work that expresses the energy, light, and hue as well as the timeless quality of each landscape." V.L. Maclean
Vicki Maclean ( V.L. Maclean ) majored in art and graduated cum laude with an honours BA in Fine Art. She also studied figure drawing, woodblock printing, and lithography.
At St. Francis University V. L. Maclean taught degree and non degree art in the Fine Arts Department, coordinated the Continuing Education Art Program, and was gallery director for the University Art Gallery.
She has had sixteen solo exhibitions in galleries in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick and has participated in many duo and group exhibitions. Her work is currently being exhibited at Zwickers' Gallery and AGNS Art Sales and Rental in Halifax, Gallery 78 in Fredericton, At the Flight of Fancy in Bear River, Harvest Gallery in Wolfville, and in Antigonish, Lyghtesome and A Matter of Tastes art galleries.
Maclean's work is represented many private and corporate collections such as Texaco Canada, The Bank of Nova Scotia, Imperial Tobacco, Northern Telecom, Maritime Tel and Tel, Teleglobe Canada, The Art Bank of Nova Scotia, CIL.
V. L. Maclean works primarily in translucent layers of colour in the mediums of oil, egg tempera, and watercolour and has completed numerous images in the print making medium of intaglio.Biography
Vicki Maclean (active since 1960s)
From Gallery 78 https://gallery78.com/collections/vicki-maclean:
"Vicki Maclean is a well-established artist who has received much deserved acclaim for her large works in oil and watercolour. She evokes the subtle qualities of Nova Scotian rural life and landscape with precise and intimate attention to the lay of the land, the hue of each season, the changing qualities of northern light. With her more recent interest in intaglio Maclean has translated her larger visions into rich, concise copper plate etchings with characteristic verve and intense purpose. The immensity of a field of yellow crops, the dense complexities of a magnificent sunset: Vicky Maclean takes on the overwhelming energy and beauty of the natural world and compresses it, without losing any of its power to astonish.
Majoring in Art at the Connecticut College for Women, in New London, Conn., MacLean graduated with an Honours BA in 1960, and went on to study figure drawing, lithography, and wood cut at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, Wisconsin. Maclean then moved to Canada, living for several years in Cape Breton and then relocating to Antigonish, N.S. where she maintains her studio. She also taught and directed the St. Francis Xavier University Art Gallery.
Vicki Maclean's work is represented in galleries in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. Her work is included in many private and corporate collections, including Texaco Canada, the Bank of Nova Scotia, Imperial Tobacco, Northern Telecom, Maritime Tel and Tel, Teleglobe Canada, the Art Bank of Nova Scotia and the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia."Exhibitions
From artist's website:
"At St. Francis University V. L. Maclean taught degree and non degree art in the Fine Arts Department, coordinated the Continuing Education Art Program, and was gallery director for the University Art Gallery.
She has had sixteen solo exhibitions in galleries in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick and has participated in many duo and group exhibitions. Her work is currently being exhibited at Zwickers' Gallery and AGNS Art Sales and Rental in Halifax, Gallery 78 in Fredericton, At the Flight of Fancy in Bear River, Harvest Gallery in Wolfville, and in Antigonish, Lyghtesome and A Matter of Tastes art galleries."Website
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