Derek Hill, a great admirer of her work, said, "Her paintings capture the Donegal we all feel in retrospect".

Joseph McWilliams, PPRUA, said, "Her landscapes are painted landscapes, her boglands are expressive marks of paint, on richly textured surfaces redolent of bog cotton and dank brown pools.....

Commenting on her most recent one woman exhibition McClean stated: "Painting for me is a necessary means of self-expression.

My desire as a painter is to establish a relationship between intuitive imagery, and a spontaneous method of painting.

I try to achieve this, through a combination of economic statements, which are personal rather than purely descriptive and keeping myself aware of the life and integrity of the paint itself."