Don Clarke – Committee Member
My inspiration comes from the landscape but rarely the grand vista. More often it is the easily passed over, the transitory private moments, the fragment glimpsed in peripheral vision. I love the patterns of modern agriculture as much as the natural forms, of barriers and ways through. But I am also enthralled by the qualities of the media I use, whether it be acrylics or oil and cold wax, different drawing materials or gentle tinting by water colours. The painting becoming a landscape in itself. Framing is important to me and sometimes becomes part of the painting itself, whether it be an enclosing barrier or a patterned extension of shapes or patterns in the painting itself.