Sheila McClean
{{short description|Irish artist}}
{{For|the British academic and humanist|Sheila McLean}}
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{{Infobox person
| name = Sheila McClean
| image = SheilaMcCleanArtisit 2004 SeanMcClean.jpg
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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1932|08|13|df=y}}
| birth_place = Moville, County Donegal, Ireland
| death_date = {{Death date and age|2016|08|05|1932|08|13|df=y}}
| death_place = Derry, Northern Ireland
| nationality = Irish
| occupation = Teacher, Artist
| spouse = Raymond McClean
| children = 2
}}
Sheila McClean, RUA,[http://www.ruaonline.com/RUA%20associate%20Sheila%20McClean.htm RUA Associate Sheila McClean] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927001720/http://www.ruaonline.com/RUA%20associate%20Sheila%20McClean.htm |date=2007-09-27 }} Royal Ulster Academy, Northern Ireland. Retrieved 2 November 2006. (13 August 1932 – 5 August 2016){{cite news | url=http://www.irishnews.com/notices/livesremembered/2016/08/13/news/sheila-mcclean-s-vibrant-personality-and-life-matched-her-art-648761/ | title=Sheila McClean's vibrant personality and life matched her art | work=irishnews.com | date=13 August 2016 | accessdate=11 October 2016}} 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.{{cite web|title=Moville Parish, County Donegal, Diocese of Derry, Ireland.|url=http://movilleparish.com/parishhistory.htm|accessdate=7 January 2011}}
- Belfast Calendar 1991
Further reading
- {{cite book|author=ROWAN, Alistair.|title=The Buildings of Ireland: North West Ulster|location=Yale University | publisher=Printing Press|year=2003|edition=reprint|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|isbn=0-7076-4917-X}} (Catalogue of exhibition which opened in the Glebe Gallery, Churchill; artists include Sheila McClean.
See also
References
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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20070927001720/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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Category:Irish Impressionist painters
Category:20th-century Irish painters
Category:21st-century Irish painters
Category:Artists from County Donegal
Category:Members of the Royal Ulster Academy
Category:People educated at Thornhill College