CLARE GROSSMAN

As a painter and printmaker my artwork focuses on the search for an essential energy – the essence of a chosen subject.

The vital energy of the land and the constant movement of the skies above are used as a personal language to convey a moment in time, a specific note on a journey travelled. An exploration of contrasts, a sense of place, visited, recorded and remembered, offer the starting point to my work.

Using different papers, textures and abstract marks through the print process I concentrate on 'one off ' atmospheric effects. Subtle layers are built up and then taken away or partially hidden by subsequent over printing. These are used as a means of describing movement, beautiful light, air, contrasts of solidity and the mysterious substance of shadows.

These are the images I search for and find, in the most ordinary and extra ordinary of destinations. The very act of printmaking with its varied repertoire and moments of chance, offer up a personal language full of exciting and ever changing possibilities.

Education

MA Fine Art Printmaking Camberwell College of Arts London 1991- 993
BA hons Printed Textiles Middlesex University London 1988-1991

Commissions Collections & Awards

CLARIDGES London
THE LANGHAM HOTEL London
CONTEMPORARY ART SOCIETY selected artwork for the
BUPA Art Collection London
DOKAAE Development Saudi Arabia
KSAU Princess Noura University Saudi Arabia
CARE INTERNATIONAL Scotland
KAUST University Saudi Arabia
THE LANDMARK HOTEL London
THE HILTON HOTEL Paris France
CARLTON TOWERS HOTEL London
RAFFLES MAKKAH PALACE Mecca Saudi Arabia
THE FOUR SEASONS London
THE ARTIST PRIZE The Artist Magazine
1ST PRIZE PRINTMAKING The Ben Uri London Museum of Art
CONNOISSEUR COLLECTION & SKITTLE CARDS LTD

Selected Exhibitions

THE PRINTROOM Hampstead work currently on show
PUSHING PRINT Margate kent 2010
LOST HERITAGE Gallery K London & Melina Mercury Hall Cyprus 2010
DISCOVERING PRINTMAKING Peggy Jay Gallery Burgh House London '09
SKETCH '05 National Open Drawing Exhibition Wiltshire & London
JEWISH ARTISTS AWARDS 04 The Ben Uri London
COMING OF AGE The Dress Project Djanogly Gallery Nottingham
PENMAN ART FAIRS Chelsea
RIDLEY ART SOCIETY Atrium Gallery London
ARTISTS OF PROMISE Art Connoisseur Gallery London
SEASONAL SHOW Markovitch Gallery London
GRAPHIC FINE ART SOCIETY Annual Shows '95 – '99 London
ARTICHOKE SUMMER SHOW Art Connoisseur Gallery London
NATIONAL PRINT EXHIBITION The Mall Galleries London
PRINTMAKING FROM THE INSTITUTE The London Institute Gallery
VISION 20/20 The Ecology Centre London
MIXED MEDIA PRINT Addisons Advertising Co London
OPEN ART SHOW Tabernacle Gallery London
CAMBERWELL MA PRINTMAKING Alternative Arts & The Railings Gallery London 2000-2001