Bruce McColl, Artist


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Impressions: 1995-2000 In the fullest sense these paintings are about relationships: Relationships between colors, tones, textures; relationships between marks, shapes, spaces. Such formal relationships are among the most compelling elements of my work. But my work is also about my relationship with my subjects. My grandfather's blue vase, for instance, or my wife-- subjects I have painted countless times-- reflect complicated, enduring relationships in my life which I further dimensionalize when I make them the subjects of my work. See work from this period.	See work from this period.
Studio Life: 2000-2003 I find myself returning more often to still-life and interior subjects in my thoughts and in my work. Interior spaces compel my imagination perhaps more than any other subject. In this mystery of attraction, I suppose, resides some truth about my own temperament. So, like a latter day “intimist”, I come back to the interior spaces of my studio and home, as if to excavate, from the details of my daily life some sense of myself. See work from this period.	See work from this period.
Remnants: 2003-Present In “Remnants” I explore the subject of domestic and personal interiority: working from sources as diverse as observation, drawings, and memory the resulting paintings represent my experience of time, place, and people rendered in abstract, and largely, poetical terms. In the lengthy process of building and layering, I am creating a pictorial space for memory and the imagination to freely reign; a space for abstract, semi-abstract, and representational shapes to rhythmically dance and play, wholly functioning as “remnants” to my interior life lived and embraced to the fullest. See work from this period. Artist's Resume Contact Bruce McColl Return to Bruce McColl Home	See work from this period.