Annelies Clarke is a painter and stained glass artist. She lives and works in Brighton, UK, where she has two studios in her home. She opens her house as an informal exhibition space once or twice a year to show her work.
She trained at the Akademie voor Beeldende Kunsten, Rotterdam, and Accademia di Belle Arti, Florence. Resident Brighton, UK, since 1980.
She splits her time between commissioned work (which ranges from portraits to stained glass and murals for homes and commercial buildings) and personal work. She accepts a handful of portrait and stained glass commissions each year.
Her personal work addresses a variety of concerns, ranging from the personal, the pleasurable and the spiritual to the political and environmental.
For example, the six paintings in her Housewife series address the balance between being an artist and a mother and housewife.
In her Seven Sisters series she compares the influences on us from outside and the influence that we can have on our surroundings, however small.
Two of her large paintings, Commedia dell'Arte and the Ivory Tower, compare and contrast institutional art and art which is integrated into real life.
The triptych Unfinished Business is about waste and recycling.
Her series of large watercolours, the Weathergirls, is about the effects of climate change on ecosystems and their creatures.
Since 1994 she has been a member of the Fiveways Artists Group which pioneered the artists’ open houses scheme in Brighton in May each year to coincide with the Brighton Arts festival.
Prints of many of her watercolours can be bought online. A selection of her prints is also available from the art@taylormade Gallery, Brighton and the Wall Gallery in Wakefield, Yorkshire.
Contact
Email anneliesclarke@gmail.com
telephone +44 (0)1273 542278
Annelies Clarke
32 Rugby Road
Brighton, East Sussex
BN1 6EB
UK