Her friends + collectors are often women with a strong eye and a quiet ache—women who’ve poured themselves out for others and feel dimmed by it. Mothers, creatives, and seekers who long to feel like themselves again—not just to find time, but to move toward wholeness, to remember who they are and what they love.

Mac Meckley is a painter and writer devoted to helping women reclaim their creativity—especially in the sacred, stretched-out seasons of motherhood.

Whether through brush or pen, her work is grounded in biblical themes and classical technique. With traditional oil painting and lyrical prose, she explores covenant, identity, and transformation through recurring symbols: shimmering fish, heirloom rings, and the human hand.

Mac’s work is shaped by the Southern California coast she’s always called home. The salt air, the light on water, the unspoken power of the ocean—they’ve long informed her palette, her symbolism, and her sense of the eternal. Her compositions pull from this landscape not just for beauty’s sake, but to express spiritual truths: transformation, covenant, longing, and return. For Mac, the ocean is both muse and metaphor—a mirror of divine mystery and the life teeming beneath the surface.

Mac is madly in love with her man, a mama of two, and a seventh-generation Californian.
She believes in Jesus, the power of paint, and the kind of beauty that only comes through inspiration.
She studied fine art at the Lamar Dodd School of Art and earned her degree in oil painting from the University of Nevada, where her vision was shaped by years of disciplined observation and a reverence for the Old Masters.

Through her studio practice, workshops, and forthcoming novel, Mac invites you into something richer: a life where beauty and faith inform every act of creation—and where making art becomes a way of returning whole.

She currently lives and works in Long Beach, California, alongside her husband, J, and their children.