Rodney Mackay's Virtual Art Gallery

Rodney MacKay is a traditional painter in the acrylic medium. He has been a newspaper reporter, high school teacher, antique dealer, bookman and biological technician. Rodney had his first one man show in Fredericton, New Brunswick in 1972 and he has been a full-time painter since that time.

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  Barberries
  acrylic painting on canvas
  8 x 10 inches

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  Blue Rocks, Nova Scotia
  acrylic painting on canvas
  11 x 17 inches

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  Blue Rocks In Winter
  acrylic painting on canvas
  18 x 10 inches

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  Yellow Rose
  acrylic painting on canvas
  8 x 10 inches

Rodney MacKay Artist Portfolio:
Art, History and English were the only subjects which had the power to retrieve me from the imaginary world of the doodle. Marcel Duchamp said 'art is a drug,' and as an adult it is the only sure means I have to escape from the grim realities of life.

I have now and then veered away from representational painting but have always had a tendency to keep my crayons within the lines of the colouring book. I therefore always come back to subject matter. Beyond that, I paint as I once coloured--alone, with full involvement, representing colour just as I see it in spite of the protests of those who live in a watered down world.

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  Blue Skiff, Blue Rocks
  Nova Scotia
  acrylic painting on canvas
  8 x 10 inches

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  Four Dories, Lunenburg
  Nova Scotia
  acrylic painting on canvas
  8 x 10 inches

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  Schooner At Dusk, St. Andrews
  New Brunswick
  acrylic painting on canvas
  8 x 10 inches

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  Boat Shed at Blue Rocks
  Nova Scotia
  acrylic painting on canvas
  8 x 10 inches

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