The Silence of Mountains | Jane MacNeill | July 2020 | Kilmorack Gallery

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JANE MACNEILL The Silence of Mountains


Jane MacNeill The Silence of Mountains 15th August - 5th September 2020

cover Blue Hill and Birches (Carn Eilrig) oil on board | 44cm x 54cm opposite Red Birches (Carn Eilrig) oil on board | 93cm x 116cm


Foreword These are the mountains of my childhood, the hills of home. They are ancient, weathered, and rounded by retreating ice; the colours they reflect are dictated by their geology, by the plants that manage to grow on them, by the quality of snow and ice, and by water. Although I have walked countless times amongst them, it is their distance that moves me. When they are half hidden by forests, or by the vast thickness of air between my eyes and their surfaces, I am filled with a swelling sense of calm which sweeps away busy thoughts, a kind of fast track to the meditating mind’s goal of marvellous emptiness. For me, the process of painting is an attempt to recapture this effect; a clearing away of clutter, a distillation of what is seen through half closed eyes, to elements of water and stone, and air.

Jane MacNeill Dark Mountain with small cloud moving (Carn Eilrig) oil on board 93cm x 116cm

May 2020


Beyond the Mountain (Beinn Liath Mhor a’ Ghiubhais Li) oil on board 93cm x 116cm


Pale Mountains and Bright Birches above Glen Feshie acrylic and oil 27cm x 30cm

Last Light, Creagan Gleannain acrylic and oil 25cm x 30cm

Hillside in Shadow, Glen Feshie acrylic and oil on board 27cm x 30cm

Brightening Sky above Glen Feshie acrylic and oil 27cm x 30cm


Winter Mountain with Reflection and Two Clouds (Carn Eilrig)| oil on board | 78cm x 101cm


Dusk on the Mountain (Beinn Liath Mhor a Ghiubhais Li) oil on board 93cm x 116cm


Ghost Pine, Ryvoan Pass oil on board 25cm x 30cm

Skeleton Pine, Ryvoan Pass oil on board 25cm x 30cm

Large Cloud over Glen Tromie acrylic and oil on board 27cm x 30cm

Grey Mountain (Beinn Liath Mhor a’ Ghiubhais Li) oil on board 45cm x 49cm


Mountain Pass in Red and Blue (Lairig Ghru)| oil on board | 117cm x 152cm


Rainbow over Glen Feshie oil on board 48cm x 56cm


Dusk on the Grey Mouintain (Beinn Liath Mhor a Ghiubhais Li) oil on board 45cm x 49cm

Stand of Ghost Pines, Ryvoan Pass oil on board 25cm x 30cm


Blue Hill and Birches (Carn Eilrig) oil on board 44cm x 54cm


Sunset in the Birches beneath the Hill (Creagan Gleannaig) oil on board 78cm x 101cm


Light from the East, Drumguish acrylic and oil on board 45cm x 49cm

01463 783 230 art@kilmorackgallery.co.uk by beauly, inverness-shire iv4 7al



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