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Penelope Scott-McCaig

“To live in this world, you must be able to do three things : to love what is mortal, to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it ; and when the time comes to let it go, to let it go.”  ~M.Oliver, In Blackwater Woods

This group of paintings is inspired by deeply heartfelt and intensely poignant life experiences and my passionate and remembered feelings therein. 

My love of the natural environment, particularly  the British Columbian coast, has been highly focused in recent years by the countless local maritime adventures I have been fortunate enough to take. Each landscape and plant is painted from a photograph that I have taken from a place that I have visited.  

"I am drawn to the delicate and ever-changing beauty of this landscape and the depth of mystery, power and spirituality that can exist there. This sense of awe, married with my own emotional attachment to each place informs the rendering of the paintings. The work unfolds intuitively as I use form, colour, and a strong evidence of process to reveal the beauty I see but also to represent a mood felt in a certain place in time. The repeated layering of diluted pigment speaks to the gentle distortion of emotional memory … in it’s ephemeral and often healing quality.

The compositional elements of the dripping of paint and the gestural mark-making are meant to evoke the poetic nature of the human experience… a truth and a  vulnerability that exists within all life… dewy and raw (not dry) in it’s many expressions. 

These paintings are a meditation on memory, on love, on loss, on joy, on freedom and on innocence. And so in some way each piece becomes a self portrait; a mapping of an emotional history; an ode to the feeling of being alive. 

I hope you enjoy."

- Penelope Scott-McCaig

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Tuesday April 23 - Saturday May 18, 2024​

OPENING RECEPTION:

Friday April 26 | 6-8PM

All are welcome!