Eileen McGann Art: Stained Glass Series

Eileen McGann - fine art-

"STAINED GLASS" TREE PORTRAIT SERIES

My "Stained Glass Series" of tree portraits came about as a response to a challenge I set myself.

I love the movement of the growth in trees: how the branches weave and twine and reach and dance. The best time to see this is in winter, when the branches are bare, but painted winter trees often look a bit sad and cold when stripped of their living, moving foliage. This series is my response to that challenge - to paint the bare trees in winter, but to reveal their joy, movement, sensuous form and dynamic interaction with the negative spaces of the sky behind.

These are portraits of actual living trees, most of them here on Vancouver Island. Watercolour, with its delicate and transparent vibrancy, seems to lend itself perfectly to this vision which highlights the interplay of light and life. (Maps to the location of the specific tree are affixed to the back of each painting.) Recently I have begun to paint a series of stained glass trees using acrylics on large canvases, with very happy results.

After having done a number of these, I was moved then to apply a similar technique with trees in leaf, this time moving the stained glass effect of dynamic and varied colour from the sky to the foliage, while still being true to the form of the actual trees.

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Paintings in this series have been selling as soon as they are finished (if not before) so if you would like to have one in your collection (or commission one) please drop me a note here to be informed when there are new, available additions to this series.

New works in this series now available for sale! :
	"Black Oak Sunburst" 24 x 36 Acrylic on Deep Canvas SOLD
	"Laughing in the Light" 10 x 14 Acrylic on Deep Canvas SOLD
	"Warming Spell" 11 x 14 Acrylic on canvas SOLD
	"Wild Pacific Tree" 5x7 Acrylic on board Available
	"Red Sky at Night" 8x10 Acrylic on textured board Available
	"Border Jig" 10 x 14 Acrylic on canvas board (Available with custom frame) $500
	"Moonstone Apple Glow" 10 x 14 Watercolour SOLD

SOLD Stained Glass Series Paintings:
	"Watching the Apple Glow" 24 x36 Acrylic on canvas Private Collection London, ON
	"Suncatcher " 8 x 10 Acrylic on canvas Private Collection Calgary, AB
	"Devonian Tangle " 24x30 Acrylic on Canvas Private Collection Edmonton, AB
	"Stonecroft Hallelujah " 18x36 Acrylic on Canvas Private Collection Ingersoll, ON
	"Stonecroft Evensong " 18x36 Acrylic on Canvas Private Collection Toronto, ON
	"Celebration: Earth & Sky " 36x36 Acrylic on Canvas Private Collection Sidney, BC
	*"Winter Chapel"* 11x14 Acrylic on Canvas Private Collection Sidney, BC
	"Kaleidescope Oak" 12x12 Acrylic on deep canvas Private Collection Crofton, BC
	"Uplift" 22 x 30 Watercolour Private Collection Vernon, BC
	"Dilemma" 16 x20 Acrylic on deep canvas Private Collection Sheffield, England
	"Saanich Stained Glass" 24 x 36 Acrylic on canvas Private Collection Calgary, AB
	"Stained Glass I " 11x15 Watercolour Private Collection Calgary, AB
	"Garry Oak Glow" 15x22 Watercolour Private Collection Courtney, BC
	"Oak & Ocean" 15x22 Watercolour Private Collection Calgary, AB
	"Beach Glass" 15x22 Watercolour Private Collection France
	"Warm Laughter" 15x22 Watercolour Private Collection Metchosin, BC
	"Broadmead Oak" 15x22 Watercolour Private Collection Toronto, ON
	"Yellowpoint Morning" 11x15 Watercolour (roll mouse over image to see framed painting) Private Collection, Calgary, AB
	"Joyful" 15x22 Watercolour Private Collection Alberta
	16x20 Acrylic (Private Collection) (in handmade Zebrawood frame) Private Collection Edmonton, Alberta
	"Moontree" 11x15 Watercolour Private Collection
	"Turn Turn Turn" 18 x 24 Acrylic on Deep Canvas Private Collection Duncan, BC


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