Artists >> Clarkson Judy
My interest is the human face and figure. At college I worked from models, and life drawing is a passion I have sustained to this day. I now paint mainly from photographs, using this secondary and 2D resource as a mnemonic stimulus. For me creation is a purely intuitive process, during which the paint actually becomes the subject as an act of transubstantiation. Oil paint lends itself peculiarly to the depiction of flesh: plastic; translucent; an earthy spectrum; skeins of pigment emulate the layering of nerves, muscle, skin that constitute the body. As I work, it seems that I allow rather than execute the image i.e. that it exists already within the paint in the same way that a sculptor might 'see' a figure within a block of marble.

Qualifications
BA Fine Art, St Martin's School of Art, 1987
Foundation, Harrogate College of Art, 1983


Exhibitions

2019          Flux Exhibition, National Army Museum, Royal Hospital Rd, SW3

 

2018         All That I am Capable of Becoming, Burgh House, New End Square, NW3

                 Dashwoods Art Society, The Original Gallery, Haringey Park, N8

                Holly Bush Emerging Woman Painter Prize Finalists, Burgh House, New End Square, NW3

                The Nude, Candid Arts Trust, 3 Torrens St, EC1V

2017         Dashwoods Art Society, The Original Gallery, Haringey Park, N8            

2016        Dashwoods Art Society, The Original Gallery, Haringey Park, N8

2015 Dashwoods Art Society, The Original Gallery, Haringey Park, N8
Spring Salon, Candid Arts Trust, 3 Torrens St EC1V

2014 Art Apart Fair, Town Hall Hotel, Patriot Sq, E2
Dashwoods Art Society, The Original Gallery, Haringey Park, N8

2013 Dashwoods Art Society, The Original Gallery, Haringey Park, N8
Espacio Gallery, 159 Bethnal Green Rd, E2

2012 Espacio Gallery, 159 Bethnal Green Rd, E2
Walthamstow Art Trail, Lotolie Family Hairdresser, E17
Summer Salon, Islington Arts Factory, Parkhurst Rd, N&




Other Activities
Fiction writing

Personal Website
judyclarkson@artweb.com
judyclarkson.wix.com/artist


Clarkson Judy
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