Monica Macdonald

BLUE TREES/YELLOW SKY oil on canvas 24 x 30 in. unframed $1,100   COMMUNICATION oil on canvas 16 x 20 in. framed dimensions: 21 x 17 in. $600   FARMLAND oil on canvas 24 x 30 in. unframed $1,100   FENCE AND FIELD oil on canvas 16 x 20 in. framed dimensions: 17 x 21 in. $600 DUNES oil on canvas 16 x 20 in. framed dimensions: 7 x 21 in. $375

PUSSY WILLOWS oil on canvas 36 x 72 in. unframed SOLD

Monica Macdonald has been painting and exhibiting her work for over fifteen years. From 1982 until 1992, she attended various Continuing Education Art Courses in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. In 1992 she began full time study at Sir Wilfred Grenfell School of Fine Art (Memorial University) in Corner Brook, Newfoundland, where she was the recipient of several art scholarships and awards. In 1995 she moved to Halifax, NS where she continued her studies and received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design.

In 1996 Monica moved with her husband and three daughters to Fredericton, where she is an active member of the arts community. She is a member of the Board of Directors of Gallery Connexion (Fredericton's artist run center) and is a member of the Beaverbrook Art Gallery's Docent Program.

Monica's paintings have been shown in solo and group exhibitions throughout Atlantic Canada. Her work is at Gallery 78 and she is also represented by galleries in Nova Scotia and Newfoundland.

Monica's most recent paintings reflect her ongoing relationship with the landscape as well as her interest in the formal aspects of composition, color, texture and mark-making in oil painting. They reveal her fascination with the patterning of trees and fields along the St. John River and her deep connection with the red roads and rolling hills of her Prince Edward Island childhood home.