Ian McLean

My paintings are rooted in the architecture of mid twentieth century houses – structures that, for me, evoke a specific cultural memory yet feel suspended in time. These homes, both familiar and elusive, serve as vessels for nostalgia, longing, and the unknown. Each painting is a meditation on control and its limits. Colour is central to my process. I use unexpected, sometimes otherworldly colour as a form of allure and disruption.  The palette becomes a language of its own – expressing what memory distorts, forgets, or transforms. Ultimately, my practice is about the blur between worlds - between the constructed and the organic, the known and the mysterious, the remembered and the imagined.