Sara MacCulloch is a landscape painter who paints in order to capture the transient experiences of nature. She paints seasonally, leaving her home in Toronto for the familiar vistas of Maine and Nova Scotia where she grew up. All the small changes in time of day, weather, plant growth, and shoreline variations interest her. With photos and sketches, she absorbs the subtleties and feelings of a specific landscape and a specific experience.
Summer days immersed in nature provide necessary relief from the challenges of today’s world. As Maculloch says, “Finding solace even in the bad weather, in the skies made opaque from fog or forest fire smoke, in the rain, or despite the drought, in the hot sun.”
In the fall, she returns to her studio to paint. Intuitive, sensual brush strokes and a creamy palette create a sense of immediacy and clarity. The resulting paintings are a distillation of the experience and an invitation to enter these spaces and share a precise moment.
