| Debbie Clarke |
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born 1953
Gloucester Ma
aka pbsage:
a mid career native Cape Ann artist painting for over 40 years.
I am here to meet and then exceed my expectations.
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| 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
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Iso
circa 2000 conte with oil wash on paper 76x100cm |
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drawing for a "Standing Figure"
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blue mug
circa 2000 oil on reverse glass with metal leaf 50x75cm approx. |
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$1800 as is
This painting needs a lightbox frame.
$3500 if I have the lightbox frame made.
plus shipping
US sales only
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Hake
2007 oil on reverse glass with metal leaf 25x43cm |
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$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 |
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view of the Beacon Marine from Rocky Neck, Gloucester MA |
Church Soup
2006 oil on canvas 46x51cm |
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Chunky, broody oil painting, inscribed with thoughts about the Memhard soup tureen. |
boatyard
2007 oil on canvas 51x51cm approx |
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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 |
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price determined by size
icons take 9 days to make.
commissions only
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3rd eye and the rowboat
2007 epsom ink print mounted on panel 13x13cm |
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$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 |
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figure compostion exploring the 4 Square, within the "Standing Figure" series |
Blue Women
2008...in process oil on reverse glass with metal leaf big |
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large glass panel referencing the water bearer and something about walking on water |
After
2003 red oil on canvas 90x120 |
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figure drawing composition exploring the 4 Square |
EB
circa 97 red oil drawing on paper 80x90cm |
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figure drawing of a girl playing a violin |
Conger
2004 oil wash on board 20x26cm |
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drawing of a head
for a Standing Figure |
stand
circa 95 oil on linen big |
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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 |
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figure composition within the "Standing Figure" series |
Nancy
2002 oil on canvas 90x120 approx |
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head study in blue |
beacon marine
2007 70x85cm |
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oil on canvas study |
today, yesterday, the day before and the day before that,
2004 oil on linen big |
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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 |
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two figure composition locked with a Greek Key.
"Standing Figure" series |
gadhus morhua
1995 oil on reverse glass with metal leaf and canvas variable |
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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 |
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figure composition in light and dark |
EB
2007 distressed oil, gold, metal leaf on canvas big |
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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 |
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Standing Figure with Fish
"Standing Figure" series
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Fisherwoman
1998 oil on linen Big detail |
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figure composition with fish
"Standing Figure" series
un stretched. |
Paperdolls
2008...in process hand dyed, waxed, rice paper variable |
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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
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| 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.
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Website: www.debbieclarke.blogspot.com |
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