YVONNE MACLEAN
FINE ARTIST
About
A seasoned professional, Yvonne has undertaken countless commissions and exhibited broadly in a number of solo and group shows.
'In my work I explore the sensitivity and fondness I have for people and their stories via drawing, painting, printmaking and digital art design.
I am curious about the effect our favourite objects, places, and memories have on our identity.
I take time to dwell and connect with literal and ‘felt’ elements to make my art forms, building 'visual' meanings and new stories as I go that thread dreaming with a felt connection of exploring life experiences between celebration and loss. At times I lean into a ‘Symbolist' lens provided by artists from the late 1800’s/ early 1900’s.'
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Yvonne has grown her Arts Business 'YSH Studio' to include Fine Arts teaching, commission work, 'Artist in Residence’ work, digital art and design, public art and mural work.
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With significant further study (Master of Arts, Arts Therapy and Psychodrama Accreditation), Yvonne's studio practice bloomed sharing attention with then 21 years employment working as a professionally registered Arts Psychotherapist, Allied Health Clinician in Specialist Palliative and Bereavement Care. Yvonne continues in private practice today, providing professional Expressive Arts Therapy Supervision.
Yvonne's interest in people receiving good health care, inclusive of an individual's expressive needs, underpins her private practice as an Artist, Arts Psychotherapist, and Supervisor (registered with ANZACATA).
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Yvonne has long worked in a balanced way, committed to vital palliative, 'end stage of life' care and bereavement care work, along side life-celebration work. Yvonne works publicly with children and families at community and large corporate events, enhancing the little lives of her clients with professional quality, face paint and body art designs.
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A return to the Studio full time is seeing Yvonne’s portraiture, surface pattern design and illustration work go from strength to strength.
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Mission
“Collaborating with my patrons to achieve their art works, their contracts, their commissions is thrilling.
I love to take spontaneous ideas through their paces and achieve a beautiful original work.
Yvonne Maclean
Vision
"I truly love paint.
I have an affinity with it, a basic need to respond to the world by creating works of art that foster my genuine love of connecting with beauty, nature, people and our/their stories..."
Yvonne Maclean
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21 Years
Charity Partnership
Painting for CMRI Jeans for Genes TM
Yvonne Maclean original 1998 painted portrait homage on the denim of Halle Berry, for CMRI
Yvonne Maclean original 1999 painted portrait inclusive of the signed denim of Sarah O’Hare / Sarah Murdoch, for CMRI
Yvonne Maclean original 2002 painting homage to Denise Drysdale on denim, painted live on the Denise Drysdale TV Show, for CMRI
Yvonne Maclean original 2002 painted portrait on the signed denim of Tony Lockett, for CMRI
Yvonne Maclean original 2000 painted portrait on the denim of Denise Drysdale, painted live on her TV show, for CMRI
Yvonne Maclean original 2001 painted portrait on the signed denim of Winona Ryder, for CMRI
Yvonne Maclean original 2002 painted portrait on signed the denim of Dame Kirri Te Kawana, for CMRI
Yvonne Maclean original 2002 painted portrait on the signed denim of Sarah Jessica Parker, for CMRI
Yvonne Maclean original 2005 painted portrait on the signed denim of Jane Fonda, for CMRI