Brid Clarke
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| Brid Clarke | |
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| Born | Missing required parameter 1=month! , 1941 |
| 🏫 Education | Irish School of Landscape Painting and National College[1] |
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| Known for | Watercolor |
| Movement | Landscapes |
| 🏅 Awards | Dart Suburban Rail Prize[2] |
| 🌐 Website | [1] |
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Brid Clarke is an Irish watercolor artist, best known for her landscape pieces.
Early life and education
Clarke was born in Sligo in 1941. She began painting in 1970 at the age of 29, and she attended the Irish School of Landscape painting from 1976 - 1979. She also took courses in painting and life drawing at the National College of Art and Design. [1] She lives with her husband, a photographer, and has three children in Malahide, Ireland.[3]
Career
Clarke's initial work was done in oil paints. She switched to primarily using watercolors because they allow her to better express the constantly changing mood of Ireland's landscape. In her work, she enjoys exploring the relationships between water, land, and built structures, specifically on Ireland's Atlantic Coast. In addition to depicting various Irish landscapes, Clarke's work also includes various portraits of figures, still lifes and landscapes of Italy and Spain.[2] Her painting series include Early Work, Still Life, Europe-Italy and Spain, Connemara, Portraits/Figures, Atlantic Coast-"Wild Atlantic Way" and Malahide and Howth.[3]
Style
Clarke's work is usually characterized by depicting vibrant landscapes, seascapes, and other landscape scenes. These are usually painted in a contemporary style; however, she has done some paintings in the abstract style as well. Clarke uses a variety of bright colors and brush techniques in order to provide a sense of depth to her watercolors. She is also able to imply intricate detail in her subject matter through gestural brush strokes. Her portraits are more abstract in that the colors of the skin are able to create a sense of highlights and shadow, but are still unnatural.[4]
Work
Clarke's work throughout her career has spanned various subjects and techniques including still life, portraits and figures, as well as landscapes of continental Europe. She has also been featured in various galleries and collections throughout her career as a painter.[3] Clarke has work available in the de Veres gallery in Dublin currently for sale, but has also had exhibitions as recently as 2016 in her studio.[3][5]
Major exhibitions
She has been a part of many selective group exhibitions. She has been included in the Royal Hibernian Academy Gallery in the years of 1989, 1991, 1992, 1997, and 1999. She was also a part of Oireachtas in 1994, the Sligo Art Gallery in 1986 and 1994, and the Mall Galleries London in 1988. She has had pieces in the European Institute of Watercolours exhibitions between the years of 1988 and 1995 in several cities such as Brussels, Paris, Dublin, and Belfast, among others. And she has participated in the IAW Exhibitions between 1996 and 2013 in Feltre, Cannobio, Connemara, Bellagio, and Fabriano.[1]
Public collections
Clarke has work in both public and private art collections throughout the world, but usually is featured in the ones from Europe. Of the ones in Ireland these include Bank of Ireland, Enterprise Ireland, Department of Foreign Affairs for Irish Embassies abroad, the Norwich Union, University of Limerick, and the German-Irish Chamber of Commerce.[1] Another prominent collection that she had was the "Atlantic Coast Ireland", which was held at the European Parliament in 2004 when there was an Irish President of the EU.[6]
Memberships
Clarke has been a founder of several institutions including the European Institute of Watercolours in 1988 and the International Association of Watercolours (IAW) in 1996. She is currently active as a member in the European Institute of Watercolours, and she was elected to the Water Colour Society of Ireland in 1999 and to the Dublin Painting and Sketching Club in 2000.[6]
Awards and nominations
Clarke has been awarded the Dart Suburban Rail Prize, or DART prize, at the annual Water Colour Society of Ireland exhibition on two occasions.[2]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 "Brid Clarke". Dublin Painting and Sketching Club. Retrieved 4 May 2019.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "Local artist given major award for her watercolour". Fingal Independent. 14 October 2005. Retrieved 4 May 2019.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Clarke, Brid. "C.V. - BRID CLARKE WATERCOLOUR PAINTER". bridclarke.ie. Retrieved 5 May 2019.
- ↑ "Work by local artists". Fingal Independent. 8 November 2002. Retrieved 4 May 2019.
- ↑ Auctions, de Veres. "THREE WATERCOLOURS by Brid Clarke | deVeres Auctions, Ireland". de Veres. DEVERES. Retrieved 5 May 2019.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 "Brid Clarke". The Water Colour Society of Ireland. Retrieved 4 May 2019.
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