Sheila Clarkson uses light coloured pastels and acrylic on black paper, to depict contrasts between light and dark in the natural world. Drawing with white on black, she illuminates the play of light on leaves, stems, trees and ripples on water. Sheila prefers working from out of door observation rather than using photographs. Most of the venues she uses as source material are local and well-known to her. What she creates is at once familiar and other-worldly, infused with a sense of stillness and mystery. She defines her practice as one of ‘light-mapping’- initially a quick practice of plotting and capturing light movements outside, which then inform her final drawing process back at the studio.
Education
North Staffordshire Polytechnic, BA Fine Art specialising in Printmaking
Selected Exhibitions
2021
Beaux Art Bath Solo Exhibition
2020
RWA Autumn Exhibition
2019
Gallery Artists Summer Exhibition, RHG Conway Street London
2018
‘Constellations’, Rebecca Hossack Gallery, London
2017
RA Summer Exhibition ‘Water: A Necessary Ecology’, Mott Street, New York
2016
‘Wilderness: Reading the Landscape’, Rebecca Hossack Gallery
2015
Magna Carta Exhibition, Gray’s Inn
2011
RWA Autumn Exhibition
2010
RA Summer Exhibition RWA Autumn Exhibition
2010
Beaux Arts Bath, Summer Exhibition
Beaux Arts Bath, 20/21 Royal Imperial College
2008
Great Atlantic Gallery, Falmouth
Tresillick Gallery, Truro
Art Fairs
AAF London, 2016-2019
Art on Paper, New York, 2016-2018
British Art Fair 20/21, 2015
Battersea Arts Fair, 2014
Awards
2019
Finalist in ING Discerning Eye Drawing Bursary, Mall Gallery London
2010
St Cuthbert’s Mill Prize, Royal West of England Academy Autumn Exhibition
