Vicki Maclean

Born in Baltimore, Maryland, V.L. Maclean majored in Art at Connecticut College for Women where she graduated cum laude in fine art and went on to study figure drawing, lithography and wood block printing at the University of Wisconsin. Maclean moved to Cape Breton, Nova Scotia where for twenty years she has worked as a full time artist.

Says Vicki about her art:

I began as an abstract painter and I try to use realism or realistic images as a way of organizing the form of the work as one might do in a nonfigurative work. The choice of artistic elements such as colour, uses of space, linear movement (or lack of) and brush work are dictated by a particular quality/feeling I am trying to express.

Most of the art works in this exhibit are what I would call composite works which means parts are taken from various locations and from the imagination and memory.

V.L. Maclean works primarily in translucent layers of colour in the mediums of oil, egg tempera and watercolour. Since 1990 she has been involved in etching and has produced numerous editions.

Maclean’s work is represented in galleries in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick and is included in many private and corporate collections.