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Renato Muccillo

Original oil and acrylic paintings. Biography

 



"The Burning Season (Study)"
24 x 24 - oil
$3665 Custom framed

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"Bronze Serissa"
12 x 12 - oil
$1750 Custom framed

 

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"Blackened Pool"
12 x 24 - oil
$2500 Custom framed

 



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"Dawn - Kanaka Creek"
8 x 8 - oil
$1260 Custom framed

 



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"Lifting Fog"
12 x 12 - oil
$1750 Custom framed

 



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"East of McDonald Beach"
18 x 30 - oil
$3800 Custom framed

 

 



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"Sharpe Road - Westward View"
12 x 24 - oil
$2500 Custom framed

 

 

 



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"Dusk"
12 x 24 - oil
$2500 Custom framed

 

 

 

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"Squatting Carmona"
14 x 14 - oil
$2210 Custom framed

 



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"Twins at Dusk"
8 x 24 - oil
$2200 Custom framed

 



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"Maple Ridge, Dusk - Study"
9 x 12 - oil
$1375 Custom framed

 



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"Flooded Fence Line"
8 x 24 - oil

 

 



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"Encroaching Storm - Mud Bay"
48 x 48 - oil
$11,000 Custom framed

 


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"Cresting Storm
Over Corbett Lake"
24 x 36 - oil

 



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"September Storm I"
8 x 10 - oil

 



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"September Storm II"
9 x 12 - oil

 



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"Passing Storm Over
Three Lake Valley"
15 x 30 - oil

 



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"Emerald Canopies (Study)"
18 x 18 - oil

 



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"Turkey Oaks (Study)"
18 x 18 - oil



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"Slough"
12 x 48 - oil


 


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"Poplar in Half Light"
10 x 20 - oil

 


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"February Fleet"
30 x 40 - oil

 
 


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"October Hwy 99"
8 x 16 - oil
 

 



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"Crowley Mountain"
8 x 16 - oil

 

 



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"Late Afternoon, Mud Bay"
48 x 48 - oil

 


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"Light from the Left Side"
18 x 24 - oil

 


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"Sunrise Over the South Path"
15 x 30 - oil
 

 



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"From the Lookout"
16 x 16 - acrylic


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"Autumn Glow"
18 x 36 - oil
 


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"Grove Under Oxide Light"
triptych - each panel 12 x 36 - oil

 



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"Study in Green and Gold"
12 x 12 - oil
 

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"Jade Study"
16 x 16 - oil

 



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"Study in Red and Green"
7 x 14 - oil

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"Freighters off Jericho"
9 x 12 - oil

 


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"Along the Maplewood Trail"
24 x 24 - oil
 


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"Filtered Light Over the Low Lands"
12 x 36 - oil
 

 

 



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"Splayed Orange Flowers"
9 x 12 - oil

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"Flood Plains"
7 x 14 - oil

 


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"Blue Blossoms"
9 x 12 - oil

 


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"The North Side Looking West"
24 x 30 - oil


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"October Evening on
Finn Slough"
22 x 28 - oil

 


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"Winter on Eaglett Lake"
14 x 18 - oil

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"Fraser River Mills"
20 x 24 - oil
 

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"Cranbrook Hill Sunrise"
18 x 24 - oil


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"Cranbrook Hill"
11 x 14 - oil

 


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"Low Tide"
12 x 24 - oil

 



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"Westward" (triptych)
12 x 36 (total size) - oil


 



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"Broken Sky"
24 x 36 - oil


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"Updraft"
15 x 30 - oil

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"Incandescent Avenue"
11 x 14 - oil

 

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"Luna"
14 x 18 - oil

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"February on the Serpentine"
18 x 36 - oil

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"Sunset on the Alouette River"
9 x 12 - acrylic

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"East of Siwash"
9 x 12 - oil

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"Afternoon Sun - Chekamus River"
8 x 10 - oil

 


 
RENATO MUCCILLO’s landscapes have often been compared to those of Dutch masters and 19th Century English artists. However, Muccillo’s images remind us how frequently today’s landscape has been affected and appropriated by man and industry. We are mesmerized at first by the luxurious colours and near miraculous use of light but, on closer inspection, we notice the culvert, the pilings, the log booms, or the distant plume of smoke stacks. Even the farms that serve as subject matters of his paintings leave us wondering if they are viable or abandoned as there is no sign of human life—only the marks left behind by man and machine.

It is a curious relationship between the sheer beauty and effect of light as it hits, or emanates from, intrusive steam plumes. The radiance is gorgeous, the content disquieting. And yet we have grown so accustomed to these elements in our surroundings that we frequently overlook them, taking for granted what is actually there. Muccillo plays on that subtle distraction and steers our eye toward man’s impact on nature by compelling us to recognize, if not falsely sense, nature’s overwhelming beauty. To look upon one of his paintings is, at times, akin to being lured by the siren song of modernity in the context of wished-for romanticism. In the end, we are often inexplicably compelled to look upward to the sky and fix our eyes there, forgetting what we have left, or been left with, below. Perhaps it is for that reason Muccillo’s skies are what we remember most of his landscapes, long after we have walked away from them.

On the opposite end of the spectrum are Muccillo’s expressionist florals and abstracts. They are a shout of release, a slap in the eye needed to wake us from our soporific diversions while celebrating colour for the sake of colour alone. Their joyousness offer a sense of relief, and even rejoicing, in the storm of his landscapes and incredible versatility.


M
ajor shows at the White Rock Gallery:

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October 2006: From Brush to Bronze
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October 2005: Radiant Land
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October 2003: On Solid Ground


Articles:

Renato Muccillo: A Study in Contrasts
, from Magazin Art



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