By Stacey McCall
2025
oil on board
30.5x25.5 framed
$1,000
ARTIST STATEMENT
"When my youngest daughter started school, I started a Friday ritual of driving to the You Yangs National park, about an hour out of Melbourne. There was certainly a freedom about getting in the car alone, snacks just for me, art podcasts replacing the Hannah Montana soundtrack. The aloneness of being in the bush with my sketchbook and water colours was just the respite I needed, reconnecting with the absolute joy of drawing and painting and maybe easing a slight sadness over children growing older. There is such a comfort in nature.
Although my practice has turned more towards Still Life over the past ten years, I spend a lot of time down on the Victorian Surf Coast with my family and in The Goulburn Valley where my husband and I grow walnuts. I am never without my sketchbook and was so delighted to be included in this landscape show. My landscape painting is a studio practice, working from watercolours and drawings in my sketchbook then interpreting these sketches in oil paint back in my studio.
BIO
After completing Fine art at RMIT, with a major in Gold and Silversmithing, Stacey McCall worked as a bespoke jeweller for 15 years but eventually turned back to her true passion… painting. She now works full time from her garden studio in the inner Melbourne suburb of Kensington.