Angela Clarke
Artist
ARTIST STATEMENT
My art practise is one that has evolved to enable me to create abstract work on several series of paintings in oils, watercolour, and on folios of drawings and occasionally prints at any one time. Currently I am exploring colour and tone within the marks, forms and ambiance through an abstract response to materials such as watercolour in both their intensity and fluidity and colour pencil. An experimental approach has always underpinned my main painting practise, it particularly informs my decision making in the physicality of the work as well as the exploration of theoretical and literary ideas. I enjoy the unpredictability inherent in the fluidity of both oil paint and watercolour which demands a response, a gesture in any appropriate scale. As well as the time it allows for thought while it dries. There is an inevitable push and pull of marks, tones and colour that sometimes obscure and create areas anew demanding a reworking and or layering and it’s this that can creates a depth within the work. I often use the challenge of a limited and tonal palette to create a restriction or boundary to work within, as well as the designated square format of the drawings and canvasses.
My artistic journey has been to intuitively explore the connection between the inner world and the materials of choice to take the viewer into a bold and new experience.
Biography
Studied MA at Middlesex University in 2002.
Angela Clarke has exhibited at various Galleries throughout the UK and her work is held in a number of private collections around the world
Solo Exhibitions
2022 Open studio - At the End of the Day 2022, Stoke Newington,London
2020 While there is still time at The Open Window Gallery, London
2015 The Song of the Sirens at The Beaucatcher Salon, London
2011 Retro Retrospective at The Fox Reformed, London.
1995 Working Drawings at The Fox Reformed, London.
1994 Intimate Gardens at The Stoke Newington Festival, London.
1991 Heads in Print at Patisserie Bliss, London.
Selected Group exhibitions
2018 Group show of work by Students and Tutors Ravensbourne
University, North Greenwich, Peninsular, London. 2016 'Language in Bloomsbury' Bloomsbury Literary Festival,
London.
2007-8 Pages The Notice Gallery, London.
2006-7 The Winter Salon The Hackney Museum, London.
2006 Open Studios The Old Sea Cadets Building, London
2003 Holds and Charms Middlesex University Gallery, London.
INTOXICANT The Limehouse Arts Foundation (LAF), London.
2002 Ma Untitled Art House Gallery, London.
Artist in Residence
2003-5 Lilian Baylis Secondary School, Lambeth, London.
Calveston Primary School,Newham, London.