Short Bio

Heber City, Utah-based oil and watercolor painter, Candace McLane works in her studio overlooking the Wasatch back with her studio dogs, Nala and Maggie. Her work takes inspiration from Utah’s beautiful vistas, her small farm, and her experiences in the Divine. Her #100dayproject will be featured in the Main Gallery at Art Access in SLC, UT in July 2020

Statement

My oil and watercolor paintings are deeply informed by my Zen practice, which allows me to show up fully, even when I doubt or fear. So often, we tell ourselves stories about ourselves and others and then believe them. We create each other: and we create our reality. With my work, I share an appreciation for a single moment, a single being, and thus create a sense of gratitude for living and experiencing. I encourage others to think about what they create with their own stories and then experience, as a result of their stories. What if we loosely held, what we were convinced was "true?"  What could we create? What relationship could we repair? What deep connection to ourselves, to our planet, to each other could we cultivate?
 

Biography

Born and raised as a single child to older parents in Virginia, Candace attended Hollins University, where she had her first gallery shows, while pursuing liberal arts degrees in Studio Art and Biology. She studied Occupational Therapy at Tufts University, and then moved to Philadelphia where she practiced for a decade.  In 2010, she and her family, moved to Utah, where caregiving for two parents with dementia and a child battling drug addiction quickly hollowed her out, making a space to clearly see how she had been hustling for her worth. She began a daily practice of painting and meditation to face the stories she had been telling herself about her worth and her life. Currently she enjoys living on a small farm in Heber Valley, Utah, where she is surrounded by goats, chickens, bees and her studio dogs, Maggie and Nala.

Resume / CV

#100dayproject: Solo Show
Art Access, Main Gallery, SLC, Utah
July 2020
   100 small 4 x 6 watercolors, 7 large watercolors

Utah Water Color Society, Members Fall Exhibition
Sego3 Fine Arts Gallery, SLC, Utah
October 2019
    Mother's Day at Temple Square

Utah Watercolor Society, Small Works Exhibition
Sego3 Fine Arts Gallery, SLC, Utah
July 2019
   Thor's Hammer, Bryce Canyon, Utah
    Atop Alta in July

Sugarhouse Art Walk, June 2020
Market Resource Real Estate, SLC, UT
June 2019
   Shadows in the Canyon
   Route 189, Provo Canyon

Emerging Artists: United in class by Kindra Fehr
Joffee Coffee, Sugarhouse, SLC, Utah
November 2014
   Buffalo
   Desert Sunset in Dugway