Contributing artist

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Enola McClincey

Having spent my youth roaming the fields and
woodlands of rural Pennsylvania, nature has
played a significant role in my life. Over the
years, this deep appreciation for the outdoors
has become the central theme of my art. The
endless variety of color and textures I find in the
natural world inspire me and bring freshness to
my work. My images are pictorial representations
of the uplifting feelings and memories
experienced when taking in the beauty of the
country in which I grew up.

In my youth, I was also interested in being an
artist. I began to paint using oils. This "safe"
medium satisfied my early desire to have
complete control over the paint and render the
forms with minute detail. As my artistic style
began to mature, I decided to become more
adventurous and work in watercolor. This very
fluid medium, like unruly Nature herself, has a
mind of its own and can surprise you with its
beauty. It is this added challenge and
unpredictability that made me fall in love with
watercolor. When I do feel the need to be more
meticulous about rendering the fine details in the
image, I add pen and ink to my watercolors

For many years, I have been recording wildlife,
woodlands, meadows and farm scenes using a
camera. Much of my artwork is derived from my
vast photo collection of Pennsylvania images or
those from my recent trip to Ireland. Whether it is
a black swan gliding across the mirror-like
surface of a local farm pond or the green, rolling
hills of an Irish landscape, it the beauty of the
Earth and her creatures that I aim to capture on
paper. Even the seemingly "abstract" works that
I paint are based on realistic depictions of nature.
These colorful forms, in reality, are "macro
views" of nature objects painted in extreme
close-up so that there true identity can no longer
be seen. This intimate view reveals the beauty of
the world around us at an almost microscopic
level. It is the endless richness and beauty of
Nature that touches my heart and soul. For me,
this makes my art more than just a mere artistic
exercise, but my expression of the Divine found
in all things.