A WHOLE LOT OF SKY
December 1st – January 31st 2012
An exhibition of landscape paintings by Ian & Claire McMean
“Walking along Hadrian’s Wall on a crisp sunny autumn morning, enjoying the crystal clear clarity of the air, looking across countless miles of fields and hills in all directions, one becomes aware of the sky above and even below.”
“In Northumbria there is “a whole lot of sky”, the most panoramic skies to be seen on the planet are on Hadrian’s Wall or the Northumberland coast. You feel you could be in a bubble floating on the breeze or in a hot air balloon surveying the earth, not on the earth looking up.”
Ian and Claire McMean are inspired by the big skies of Northumberland and the drama the skies bring to the landscape. They are highly accomplished painters, illustrators, designers and sculptors with international reputations. Their work is held in collections across the world from Bejing to Toronto, Cape Town to Newcastle and beyond. They “have brushes and like to travel”.