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Debbie Clarke
 
 
About the Artist

I started painting when I was 10 years old and haven't stopped making art. Trained as a traditional oil painter, my first love was portrait painting. Today my work is mixed media, egg tempera with occassional forays into video and ephemera. Drawing, landscape, the figure, the picture plane continue to be my foundation. My inspiration comes from dreams, art materials, brush strokes, a color experience, accidents and things seen and almost seen from the corners of my eye, memories. Building up and breaking down, zen, time, change, process, breathing, these are the things of my art.
My specialty is reverse painting on glass, layered with gold and other metal leaf.

I am also a contemporary iconographer and use the iconographer's way in approaching other visual information, wherein all is light and the uncreated is separated from the created.

2005-present: My husband of 22 years died in 2003. I have spent the past few years tearing down and reconstructing my work. I have a huge inventory of work that I am currently reviewing and sorting: keep, finish, sell, throw away.

my youtube videos:
www.youtube.com/pbsage

myspace: www.myspace.com/clarkeart

 
Click to enlarge images
(if larger image has been loaded)
 

Iso

circa 2000
conte with oil wash on paper
76x100cm

drawing for a "Standing Figure"

blue mug

circa 2000
oil on reverse glass with metal leaf
50x75cm approx.

blue mug
$1800 as is This painting needs a lightbox frame. $3500 if I have the lightbox frame made. plus shipping US sales only

Hake

2007
oil on reverse glass with metal leaf
25x43cm

$1750 plus shipping $3500 if I frame it US sales only these fish change with the light and call attention to themselves

Beacon Marine summer 2007

2007
oil on canvas
77x77cm

Beacon Marine summer 2007
view of the Beacon Marine from Rocky Neck, Gloucester MA

Church Soup

2006
oil on canvas
46x51cm

Church Soup
Chunky, broody oil painting, inscribed with thoughts about the Memhard soup tureen.

boatyard

2007
oil on canvas
51x51cm approx

boatyard
summer studies of Smith Cove Rocky Neck Gloucester MA

Our Lady of Perpetual Help

circa 1999
oil and 23k gold leaf on panel
70x120cm approx

Our Lady of Perpetual Help
price determined by size icons take 9 days to make. commissions only

3rd eye and the rowboat

2007
epsom ink print mounted on panel
13x13cm

3rd eye and the rowboat
$75 per print The rowboat otoh is $5300, oil on reverse glass with metal leaf, 90x90cm from the on-going series Standing Figures

3rd eye pthalo

2008
mixed media on digi print
13x13cm

3rd eye pthalo
figure compostion exploring the 4 Square, within the "Standing Figure" series

Blue Women

2008...in process
oil on reverse glass with metal leaf
big

Blue Women
large glass panel referencing the water bearer and something about walking on water

After

2003
red oil on canvas
90x120

figure drawing composition exploring the 4 Square

EB

circa 97
red oil drawing on paper
80x90cm

figure drawing of a girl playing a violin

Conger

2004
oil wash on board
20x26cm

drawing of a head for a Standing Figure

stand

circa 95
oil on linen
big

slightly larger than life size. this is one of the paintings in the on-going series of Standing Figures

Near 40

circa 93
oil on canvas
61x115cm approx

Near 40
figure composition within the "Standing Figure" series

Nancy

2002
oil on canvas
90x120 approx

head study in blue

beacon marine

2007
70x85cm

beacon marine
oil on canvas study

today, yesterday, the day before and the day before that,

2004
oil on linen
big

one painting in the on-going "Standing Figure" series

the year we went away and came back

2003, 2007
egg tempera and oil on canvas
big

two figure composition locked with a Greek Key. "Standing Figure" series

gadhus morhua

1995
oil on reverse glass with metal leaf and canvas
variable

commissions only. this painting is in the permanent collection of the Cape Ann Museum Gloucester MA oil, gold leaf, silver leaf, wax, on reverse glass and canvas i prefer painting the cod family with a particular affinity to hake

red stand

2007
distressed oil, gold, metal leaf on canvas
big

red stand
figure composition in light and dark

EB

2007
distressed oil, gold, metal leaf on canvas
big

figure composition in light and dark "Standing Figure" series

Quick Silver Muse

2002
oil on reverse and front layered with gold and metal leaf
Big, Door Size

Quick Silver Muse
Standing Figure with Fish "Standing Figure" series

Fisherwoman

1998
oil on linen
Big detail

figure composition with fish "Standing Figure" series un stretched.

Paperdolls

2008...in process
hand dyed, waxed, rice paper
variable

Paperdolls
freestanding paper dolls handcut from hand dyed, waxed rice paper. made to order price varies $5 per figure, 5 figures minimum, length of your choice
 
Education and biography
Started painting at age 10 in my father's studio.
1967: private instruction Ken Gore, Gloucesster MA
1971: Gloucester High School, studied under Mary Nugent and Frank Petronzio
1977: Art Institue of Boston diploma in Fine Arts. Studied under Peter Hoss, Paul Davis, Domenic Cretara, John Bageris, Jason Berger, Andy MacMillan
1977-1979: independent study with a focus on figure drawing and anatomy under the direction of Iso Papo and Jack Kraemer Boston MA
1978-1980: independent study under the direction of Conger Metcalf, Boston MA

1975-1995: exhibited extensively throughout the Boston and the New England area.

Gallery shows: Howard Yezerski, Boston MA
Acacia Gallery (defunct) Gloucester MA
Local Colors, Gloucester MA
Willis & Clarke Gallery, Magnolia MA

1995-2005: established and directed The Debbie Clarke School of Drawing

Work is in many private and corporate collections throughout the United States and Canada.

Public collections: "Species"
A series of 7 reverse glass paintings depicting the major fish species that were the major 'money' stocks of the Gloucester fishermen. The work was commissioned by the museum and is on permanent exhibition in the museum's "Fisheries" collection.

1995-2005: most of my work was focused on commissioned work for private collectors, which are numerous.

 
Website:  www.debbieclarke.blogspot.com
 
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