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. 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.”
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.
In the fall, she returns to her studio to paint. She paints with deliberation, commits to each brushstroke strategically, and completes most paintings in one sitting. If, occasionally, a painting doesn’t work in a day or two, she scrapes it away and starts over. Intuitive, sensual brush strokes and a creamy pale
