Clare
Thatcher

Clare studied at Bath Spa University in 2014-15 graduating with an MA Fine Art Degree and University the West of England 2011-14 graduating with a First class BA honours degree in Drawing & Applied Art. Clare has exhibited nationally and internationally. Prize winner  London Sunny Art Prize 2022 & Bath Open Art Prize UK, Society of Woman Artists 160th Annual Open Exhibition 2021, Beep Painting Prize biennial 2020, 22 & 24, Jackson’s Open Painting Prize 2019, 22 & 23 and John Moores Painting Prize 2018 amongst others. Clare has undertaken residencies in Shetland UK, Barreiro, Portugal and Helsinki, Finland. Her works are housed in private collections in the UK, Switzerland, Madrid and USA.

I am an artist with painting and drawing at the heart of my practice. Central to my practice is the use of pure colour which I make from pigments. My work has always been about place, specific visited places in response to particular landscape features that have had a profound effect on me, mostly in tidal and coastal areas and so distinctly understood by drawing directly. I use drawing and painting as a visual language to express my most inner thoughts and emotions.