Clare Thatcher
Clare studied at Bath Spa University in 2014-15 graduating with an MA Fine Art Degree and University the West of England 2011-14 graduating with a First class BA honours degree in Drawing & Applied Art. Clare has exhibited nationally and internationally, recently exhibiting in the John Moores Painting Prize Exhibition 2018, Jackson’s Painting Prize 2019, Royal West of England Academy Academician Candidate 2019, Paris Contemporary Drawing Fair 2020 and Beep Painting Prize Biennial 2021. Her works are housed in private collections in the UK and Switzerland.
Clare Thatcher is a painter living and working in Thornbury South Gloucestershire. Clare’s practice is deeply connected to a sense of place located in coastal and tidal areas. She is interested in particular landscape features that have a profound effect on her. The locations she chooses and the focus of her attention is highly selective and personal, evoking a very strong, emotional, felt response. Clare uses drawing and painting making oil paints using pure pigments, selecting a limited palette she has felt when in a place.

Clare Thatcher drawing on location
Works
Quiet Space. In progress 2020
Alaska 2019.
These large scale drawings on paper & paintings on plywood & cotton canvas, are translated from sketchbook drawings I made on location.
Unconscious Place. In progress 2020
PADA residency, Barreiro, Portugal 2019.
These large scale drawings on paper & paintings on plywood, heavy rag papers & linen, are translated from sketchbook drawings I made on location.
Sense of Place 2018-19
Sense of Place & Spirit of Place, part of an ongoing series. My response to time spent in St Ives Cornwall, influenced by revisiting the Tate St Ives and the surrounding area. Drawing and observing in particular the landscape and geological forms of Wilhelmina Barnes-Graham works, Rocks. St Marys Scilly Isles, 1953, Rock Theme (St Just).
Vision of Landscape 2018
My response to time spent in North Cornwall, drawing and observing particular compositional rock forms. Part of an ongoing series.
Feature of Landscape 2017
My response to time spent in North Cornwall, drawing and observing particular compositional rock forms. Part of an ongoing series.
Submerged 2017
My interpretation of tidal areas the revealing and concealing of natural rock forms and movement of water.