“Spirit of place” oil and pigment on plywood panels.1220mm x 1800mm 2019
Clare Thatcher
Clare is an accomplished contemporary artist that TUBES has featured in the
magazine before today. in TAG #5 I’m delighted to publish not only her art, but give an
opportunity to give readers her own view about about her art...
“...My work is deeply connected with a sense of place. The locations I choose and
the focus of my attention are highly selective, personal and resonant of individual
landscape features, associated thoughts, emotions and reflections.
Central to my practice is the use of pure colour which I make from pigment.
I select a limited palette and through the impact of both colour and surface I aim to
capture the mood and sensation of an ever changing landscape.
These paintings, a continuing series; are my response to particular landscape features
that make reference to transition and the consequences of perpetual flux, and which
have had a profound effect on me whilst walking through coastal and tidal areas...”
RWA Academician Candidate Exhibition 2019