About Shannon McClane

I live and work in a place I call Oz. It is a small farm, a studio, and a world of its own where animals, memory, and imagination move freely together. It is here that my paintings are born, shaped by intuition, emotion, and the quiet stories that surface when the world goes still.

My work is not created from plans or sketches, but from feeling. I paint what arrives.  Images that feel remembered rather than imagined. Horses, animals, figures, watchers, and unseen companions often appear, carrying with them a sense of recognition, longing, and belonging. Each piece is a kind of translation that gives form to what lives beneath the surface.

Much of my art is inspired by the deep bonds between humans and animals, the unseen worlds we carry within us, and the idea that some connections move with us across time. I am drawn to the spaces between waking and dreaming, to the moments where memory, myth, and inner knowing overlap.

Oz is both a place and a state of being — a landscape of fields, animals, and quiet rituals, and also an inner world where stories unfold. Every collection, every series, every painting