Brendan O’Callaghan / The Uncanny Clouds / 1.23.2023 - 2.3.2023
The Uncanny Clouds explore storm clouds’ presence in the sky and how their composition can create an atmosphere of tension, eeriness, and mystery within a familiar landscape. The clouds provide a space for viewers to interpret what may be lurking inside the strange cloud formation and its purpose in the landscape.
Brendan O’Callaghan is a multidisciplinary artist with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree with a major in Media Arts from the Alberta University of the Arts and has gained a Diploma in Video Production from the Toronto Film School. His post-secondary studies inspired a fascination for creating short films of the psychological horror genre. Brendan utilized oil paintings to explore suspense themes, culminating in highly saturated colours blended to create unexpected cloud scenes in a backdrop of nature. He uses multiple-layer paint techniques to create hyper realistic cloud/landscape oil paintings to construct a sense of uncertainty, unease, mystery, and tension.
Strange Clouds, Oil on canvas, 18” x 24”, 2021.
We Build Them Just to Watch Them Fall, Oil on canvas, 18” x 36”, 2022.
Lurking, oil on canvas, 20 x 30”, 2022.
A Storm Is Brewing, Oil on canvas, 20” x 30”, 2021.
Searching for A Place to Ground Myself, oil on canvas, 16 x 20”, 2022.
Evolving, oil on canvas, 20 x 30”, 2022.
The Troubled Cloud, Oil on canvas, 16” x 20”, 2022.
Moment of The Awakening, Oil on canvas, 18” x 24”, 2022
Rupture into The Abyss, Oil on canvas, 18” x 24”, 2022.