Neil McClelland | Bright Black Starry Sunny Night

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Neil McClelland, "Spreading the Fragrance of Grass."

oil on canvas, 58 ¾” x 60”. Courtesy of the Artist.

Opening reception August 31, 2023, 5-7 pm. 

In Bright Black Starry Sunny Night, Edmonton and Victoria-based artist Neil McClelland takes as his starting point his childhood home in Quebec’s Gatineau Hills. This place becomes an imagined world in his paintings, acting as a metaphor for the sense of belonging we seek within nature and the cosmos. The paintings express the uneasiness and precariousness of our times but also a sense of enchantment, awe, and wonder at the interconnectedness of everything: land and sky, earth and cosmos, night and day, animal and human, and past/present/future. Conveying an unmoored sense of place and time and collisions of the everyday with the sublime, uncanny, or mysterious, the works offer a space for contemplating our place within the greater cosmos.