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Camilla Clark

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Camilla (b 1961) grew up, and has spent most of her life, surrounded by the beautiful Somerset countryside from the rolling Quantock hills to the calm expanses of the Somerset levels and her environment has always informed her paintings.

After a BA Honours degree in Art History from Canterbury University, she gained an Interior Design Diploma from Kingston University and both these disciplines have fed into her deep understanding of colour, shape and the academics of painting construction. She has been a professional painter full time now for over 20 years and works primarily in Oil and Acrylics.

Many years of successful Open Studio exhibitions led to leading UK contemporary gallery representation and group exhibitions. A move to the dramatic South Hams coast in 2021 means the clarity of the coastal light and a completely different landscape has (like many artists before her) stimulated a new exciting phase where her paintings have become an expressive balance of bold and sensitive abstraction.

'I constantly see the world as a series of sketches and paintings logged in various filing cabinets in my head with the drawers a little open ready to be accessed at any time. The continuous analysis of colour, tones and form of my surroundings and thoughts act like the scales a pianist will do to warm up their fingers. Words don’t come easy to me but ‘writing’ with a paintbrush is my way of describing the world as I see it and the deep sense of contentment I have when painting is essential to my life. My recent work explores the paring down of a scene to create a more abstracted, filtered expression of a place rather than a geographical record. Often a painting is not one place or moment but an amalgamation of snippets of places, moments and feelings from those filing cabinets. The endeavour is to create the perfect balance of composition, atmosphere and sense of lace both in an academic sense with the placement of colour and line, and in a spiritual way with the personal, intangible ambience of each painting.'

Camilla works from her studio in the South West and has work in private collections in the UK, USA, France and Germany.

In September 2024 she has had a painting accepted for the prestigious annual exhibition of The Royal Society of Marine Artists at The Mall Galleries, London

  • Camilla Clark - A little knot held it docked
    A little knot held it docked
    SOLD
  • Camilla Clark - Coasting In To Salcombe
    Coasting In To Salcombe
    SOLD
  • Camilla Clark - Emerald Horizon
    Emerald Horizon
    £ 1,450.00
  • Camilla Clark - Full Tide
    Full Tide
    SOLD
  • Camilla Clark - Gentle Drift
    Gentle Drift
    SOLD
  • Camilla Clark - Marina Nocturne
    Marina Nocturne
    SOLD
  • Camilla Clark - Moonlight Harbour
    Moonlight Harbour
    SOLD
  • Camilla Clark - Past The Headland
    Past The Headland
    SOLD
  • Camilla Clark - Salcombe Sails
    Salcombe Sails
    SOLD
  • Camilla Clark - Start Bay - The Ley and the Sea
    Start Bay - The Ley and the Sea
    SOLD
  • Camilla Clark - Summer Harbour
    Summer Harbour
    SOLD
  • Camilla Clark - The Little White Boat
    The Little White Boat
    SOLD
  • Camilla Clark - Tide Out
    Tide Out
    SOLD
Tonic Gallery Salcombe

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