The Chestermere Fine Art Guild is set to have their annual art show on Saturday April 30th. Sherry Telle, President of the Chestermere Fine Art Guild recently shared with us that this year’s featured artist Shaun Buckwold McQuay.
Guild President Telle gave us a look into the very talented Shaun Buckwold McQuay. “Shaun is a long standing and cherished member of the Chestermere Fine Art Guild. Her sense of humour and kind heart endear her to everyone in the guild. Shaun cannot remember a time when she wasn’t drawing, or designing something! When she was quite young her big brother gave her paints and an easel and she was in her element. However growing up life got in the way (she was a wild child back in the day!). About 12 years ago, that same brother again sparked a creative fire by sending her a number of “How To Paint” books, and she has been painting ever since. Her favourite medium is acrylics.
Shaun is creative in her profession as well as a successful interior designer. She is our resident expert on perspective drawing and always ready to help a fellow artist out when something looks “off”!
Her training as an interior designer means that her compositions are amazing and her use of colour and light make her paintings glow. When I asked her what draws her to paint she had this to say: “My paintings most often have a spiritual undertone to them. There is frequently a play of light/dark…..positive/negative….yin/yang……as above, so below. I find painting to be very cathartic, and good for the soul. It was also very important to my extraordinary Mother that I paint (she has recently returned back to the universe)…..she was my biggest fan!”
Shaun is a humble painter and her own worst critic, she has far more admirers than she could ever know. Her paintings evoke the painters of the Renaissance with a strong use of chiaroscuro, a method using strong contrasts”.
To check out the beautiful art pieces by Shaun Buckwold McQuay and the other talented members of the Chestermere Fine Art Guild, you can check out the 2016 Annual Show & Sale on Saturday April 30th in the MPP room of the Chestermere Recreation Centre from 10am – 4pm.
