Angela Clarke
Artist
ARTIST STATEMENT
My art practise has developed to enable me to create contemplative abstract work in series, of oils and watercolour. Drawing has also played an invaluable role and underpinned my painting through experiments and research, but it has also taken centre stage in folios of themed drawings. Currently I am exploring the materiality of paint and how it responds to touch across the varied canvass surface. Vibrant colour and more subtle tonality is embraced within the marks, forms and ambiance created in both paintings and drawings through an abstract response to materials. An experimental approach has always informed my practise and decision making in the physicality of the work, alongside the exploration of theoretical and poetical ideas. I enjoy the unpredictability inherent in the fluidity of both oil paint and watercolour which demands a response, a gesture in any 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 creates a depth within the work. This is evident in my current revisit of The Song of SIRENS paintings some of which have been reworked. I often use the challenge of a limited palette to create a restriction or boundary to work within, as well as the designated square format of the drawings and canvasses. My intention is to intuitively explore the connection between the inner world and the materials of choice to take the viewer into a thoughtful and new experience that will still resonate over time.
Biography
Studied MA at Middlesex University under Jon Thompson 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.