Katie Clarke

Katie Clarke is a painter who divides her time between Cambridge and Kingston upon Thames. She works primarily in acrylic, with occasional forays into mixed media, building layer upon layer of expressive colour. Her work is rooted in the natural world and threaded with the vivid, sometimes surreal imagery of her dreams. Florals, wildlife and landscape recur throughout her practice, always approached with the same instinct: colour first, detail later, feeling above all.

Cornwall, where Katie spent part of her childhood, runs through much of her work, surfacing again and again in paintings that carry memory as much as observation.

Katie has painted since childhood, but came to take it seriously, exhibiting, selling and building a practice, later in life, and has approached it ever since with total commitment and zero caution. Her work has been selected for a number of exhibitions across Cambridge and London. She is a member of Kingston Artists Open Studios (KAOS).