Eleanor McColl Fine Art

25/07/2026

Trips down memory lane and inspiration. Bristol and Yorkshire 🌿🎨 Oopps posted too soon!
The Roebuck is the pub my sister and I worked in age 15-17 ☺️
Loving revisiting old haunts and seeing friends and family.

25/07/2026

Colourful Tai O - I loved painting this one!

I don’t want this holiday to end, but I’m inspired and will enjoy being back in the studio with music & Podcasts. There’s a Yorkshire series in my 💚 that needs to make its way onto the canvas!

If you like this painting take a look on my website
https://eleanormccoll.com/products/colours-of-tai-o

Deliveries are being made at the end of August so there’s time to think about it ⭐️

01/07/2026

26/06/2026

Some ‘official’ photos if my solo retrospective from the wonderful Tracey workshop ten • photo/video production • studio for hire Thank You!

It’s been a whole week and I still feel like a glass of bubbles, fizzing with energy and excitement. Thank yiu again BCGHongKong - Stephen, Akoto, Christine and Berrie x

Seeing my work all together in one space, spanning so many phases and periods of my life, was a real chance to reflect on where I’m going next. Continuing the oils journey is all I know for sure. Maybe the one area AI won’t take over.

Speaking to an artist/educator friend Make and Do HK earlier this year, we discussed the fact that when working for yourself - you move on from project to project, proposal to proposal, show to show - without being able to take a beat and really appreciate what you’ve done or achieved. A year ends and I carry on the same the next year, responding to enquiries without considering a plan…it’s just a matter of when and where I can fit something in.

Maybe that’s the same for everyone in any job, but sometimes rushing on to the next thing is exhausting - and that’s without the constant posting about it all! 🙈

For so many reasons this is the perfect time to take a few days out and reflect about what’s important, how I’m going to grow, which way do I want to go, and how am I going to do it.

For the first time I’m able to do this. The stars have aligned and I’m able to take some time away for myself. A massive luxury before a holiday with the family, so I am incredibly grateful for this. Maybe I’ll come back less fizzy….what will that look like in drink form I don’t know.

Thanks again to everyone for your support and lovely words.

I’m going to attempt a few days detoxing social media detox - not sure I’ll succeed, but if you need me I’m on email or what’s app. Putting this out here as it will keep me accountable 😬

Have a fabulous weekend everyone ⭐️

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26/06/2026

In China, the units of time were once named after animals.
This convention is still used informally and the Chinese zodiac is a well known folk tale to this day.

In this collection, photographs of transport, accommodation and commerce are ripped, torn
the spliced together eliciting the ever changing face of Hong Kong.
The cycles of time overlapping like the pictures in the collage.

I love that the black and white images could easily be vintage, giving these pieces an ageless quality - maybe that’s why they are still so interesting to me. A way to document urban impermanence and architectural nostalgia at the same time.

Many images are repeated throughout, including
slivers of one of HK’s iconic modernist skyscrapers, Jardine’s house - also my all time favourite building -
a building considered old despite its construction in 1972.

It’s interesting to me now to consider this ancient form of measuring time with the human trend for constantly rebuilding and replacing. I hope that these images remain timeless, and when I think about the passing of time and what this collection means - a feeling of permanence is added to otherwise fun and whimsical works.

I wish I had room for the whole collection on my wall.

There’s a full set framed, waiting and ready for a new home. Or you can order a single limited edition Zodiac Animal for yourself or a loved one. Something timeless and meaningful to treasure forever.

PM me for a private viewing or simply order online.

24/06/2026

28/05/2026

This made my week

My Bake & Create workshop ( featuring Bread Sheeran ) was featured in the South China Morning Post, as part of a wider piece about how art and creativity contribute to physical and mental well-being.

It sits alongside some genuinely interesting research from the World Health Organisation, which now recognises arts based activities as part of how we look after ourselves properly.
Social prescribing in the form of an art or music class is becoming a valid alternative to medication. I have had so many students say comments like
« This is therapy but cheaper « 
« This is my happy place »
« I notice how calmer I am when I create regularly » ( why can’t I get regular speech marks on instagram?)

Whilst I don’t advertise this as a benefit, it’s something I’ve seen first hand over 26 years of running workshops and courses.

It’s been a satisfying thing to read, honestly. I started Bake & Create because I noticed that baking and painting share the same meditative quality. To see that framed in those terms feels so rewarding.

If you’ve been to a session, you’ll know exactly what I mean. If you haven’t, the next one is in September.

Or, for a longer immersion check out my retreats in Chiang Mai, HK and who knows where else next 🥰

Here is the full link - https://www.scmp.com/special-reports/article/3354340/how-hong-kong-cancer-fund-and-artist-eleanor-mccoll-use-art-improve-health

Thank you Grace Brewer for taking the time to join in the workshop and for sharing this message far and wide. If one person takes the plunge and joins an arty activity in their local area that’s a win.

Happy Friday everyone - what will you create this weekend?

SCMP

26/05/2026

Happy Tuesday everyone. Tuesday is almost always a good day for me, because I associate it with the colour yellow 💛😁

This is not the post I intended to write but now I’ve started….. strange as it may seem, I see and feel the word Tuesday as a warm and vibrant yellow colour - so it’s often a day that starts well, despite it also being my busiest quite often.

This is my current mood in work and life - Details and clarity waiting to emerge from the fog.

I’ve been sick on and off for a month, but too busy to really stop, so the colours have definitely been more muted.

I’m finally feeling 100% - and you know that’s the best feeling - when you’re able to step back into yourself with energy rather than dragging yourself along 😁

So here’s to a productive week full of focus, colour and quiet where it can be found 🥰