Painting · Landscape
Alice MacLeod
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
“Fog does not hide the coast; it changes the distance required to see it.”
Biography
Alice MacLeod has painted the Atlantic coast for four decades without settling into literal topography. Her recent canvases reduce headlands, fog, and open water to layered horizontal pressure and shifting bands of cool light.
Artist statement
MacLeod paints weather as a structure that can reorganize distance. The coast remains recognizable, but description gives way to the physical pace of looking across water.
In the studio
MacLeod works from color notes made outdoors, then paints in the studio from memory. Thin oil stains establish the horizon before heavier passages are dragged, wiped, and rebuilt with broad knives.
