Sara MacCulloch

PRESS RELEASE: Immediate

Studio 21 celebrates the opening of Sara MacCulloch’s solo exhibition entitled Summer just a few days before the beginning of the season itself. MacCulloch, well known for her ability to capture the feeling of a place in a masterly and reductive manner, shows a series of landscape paintings that ‘quiet’ the viewer - drawing us in to the atmosphere of a particular moment in time. Her studio practice requires a disciplined approach:

“I continue to try to create my paintings in one go - one session in the studio - this is to allow for clarity of purpose. My aim is to evoke these places - the mood, the quietness. I am more concerned with capturing the feeling of being there than getting bogged down by the details of the landscapes. Sometimes a painting will come together in one day, but more often I attempt the same image over a period of days until it feels right. I will scrape everything off at the end of each day if the work is not resolved. I want the paintings to feel like a fleeting moment - and this seems the only way I can do that.”

MacCulloch continues to impress as she is a master of the painting medium - her colour palette, her brush strokes all show intuitive confidence. She succeeds every time in conveying the intangible quality of experiencing place.

Sara MacCulloch was born in Nova Scotia in 1967.  She received her BFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art & Design in 1992, with a major in painting and a minor in art history. She has exhibited with Studio 21 Fine Art since 1996, and has also shown extensively in Toronto & New York.  Her work can be found in many fine collections, such as: the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, the Nova Scotia Art Bank, Heenan Blaikie Law, Department of Foreign Affairs, Royal Bank of Canada, and Gotlands Kunstmuseum in Sweden.  Her work was recently published in the prestigious "Carte Blanche 2" - a juried overview of Canadian contemporary painting, by Magenta Press, and “From Land and Sea: Nova Scotia Contemporary Landscape Artists” by Dee Appleby, Nimbus Publishing.