Clare Thatcher is an Artist with a passion for painting and a thirst for colour. Her work is deeply connected with a sense of place. The locations she chooses and the focus of her attention is highly selective, personal and resonant of individual landscape features, associated thoughts, emotions and reflections.Central to her practice is the use of pure colour which Clare makes from pigments. The artist selects a limited palette and through the impact of colour and surface aims to capture the mood and sensation of an ever changing landscape. Her paintings are responses to particular landscape features that make reference to transition and the consequences of perpetual flux, and which have had a profound effect on her whilst walking through coastal and tidal areas.
Clare has her studio base in Bristol (UK) which gives her access to the South West dramatic coast of Britain. However, she does travel and these art works are based on her visit to Alaska in 2019. This raw almost untouched by human hand part of the USA must have indeed been an experience of a “Sense of Place.”
Here Clare talks about her process: I choose subject matter that evokes a very strong, emotional, felt response of natural elements that have a profound effect on me. I have to capture and make work about. It can be in a specific location, I can access and revisit, each time experiencing something new with fresh eyes. Or places I visit just the once and remains in my memory and my drawings. My line drawings in charcoal or pencil suggest colour to me, capturing the mood and sensation transporting me back there.” “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 feature
