CLARE GROSSMAN
painter & printmaker
Artist Statement
'My work predominately focuses on the search for a personal narrative, an essential energy, the ‘essence’ of a chosen subject or place encapsulated in an emotional response'
Working often with a combination of techniques, a final piece may be constructed from layers of colour and texture, using experimental methods to produce work that aims to describe movement, the energy found in nature, beautiful light, contrasts of solidity against the mysterious substance of shadows, crispness or warmth of the surrounding air, reflections across a landscape and patterns of architectural decay.
A subject visited and understood, whether urban or from the natural environment are habitually used as a personal language to convey a moment in time, a specific note travelled. An exploration of contrasts, a sense of place or character, all are recorded, redrawn & memorized in sketchbooks.
Initial drawings are used as a way of understanding the subject & in collaboration with the studies, the prints and paintings are developed through their stages. Living in a world where urban life and nature are more than ever residing together in precarious balance; it is the agressive beauty of both which holds an empirical emphasis for much of work. The results are a means of exploration both of technique and subject, where each piece is seen as an opportunity to progress and investigate further, its individual course often revealed in the final completion through the exposure of its layers
The results visually highlight the exploration of the creative process, a visual record of experiences both felt and surveyed.'
Clare Grossman MA
MASTER OF ARTS IN FINE ART PRINTMAKING
Camberwell School of Art
COLLECTIONS
The Victoria & Albert Museum
Scarborough Museum & Art Gallery
Claridges London
King Abdula University of Science & Technology
Princess Noura University for Women
Langham London
Care International Scotland
Carlton Towers Hotel Knightsbridge
Raffles Makkah Palace Saudi Arabia
Hilton Hotel Paris
The Landmark Hotel London
The Four Seasons Hotel London
DOKAAE Development Saudi Arabia
Southampton Football Club
The Contemporary Art Society for The BUPA art collection
Saudi Royal Family
Art UK
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
The Great Print Exhibition 5 - Invited Artist, Rheged Centre Gallery, Penrith
Woolwich Contemporary Print '19, London -Invited Artist
A Printmakers London - Invited Artist, For Arts Sake Gallery Bond St W5
Impress IV Fisherton Mill Gallery, Salisbury, Contemporary Printmaking - invited Artist
Greenwich Pritmakers at 40, Watts Gallery Artists Village Compton
Journies The Printmakers Council, London Print Studio & Jack House Gallery Portsmouth
The New York Suite, Solo Exhibition of paintings & printmaking, For Arts Sake Bond St W5
Memory, Royal Overseas League House St Jame's Street London
Invited Artist to Douro 9th Biennal Contemporary Printmaking Portugal
The Masters 2017 Monoprint Exhibition Bankside Gallery
Jack House Gallery Portsmouth Prints for Presents with Greenwich Printmakers
Lyrical Notes, The Barbican, exhibition with artist Tim Southall
Pushing Boundaries, Farmleigh Gallery & Dunamaise Arts Centre Ireland 2016
Loosely Bound, Highgate Gallery & Printroom Suffolk
In 2 Parts. Lombard street Gallery Margate
Members Summer Show, London Print Studio Gallery
50 Years of Artist Prints, Bankside Gallery London
Transformation, Cyprus High Commission St James Place London
Rythmic Perception, solo show Aeon Gallery Hampstead
Fifty Fifty, New Ashgate Gallery Farnham
Imprint Contemporary Printmaking Cirencester
Works on Paper, the Barbican
Multiplied, Christies South Kensington
Connections, Cupola Gallery Sheffield
ILTM Cannes, France – invited artist Solo Show
Grand Designs Olympia
Freshly Pressed at Craft Central, London
The Bainbridge Open 2014, 2013 & 2011
Highgate – a Reflection in Print, Highgate Literary & Scientific Institute 2013
Photographics Great Western Studios London 2013
BITE Artists Making Prints Mall Galleries 2012
Turn Turn Turn Margate 2012
Pushing Print Margate 2010 & 2011
East Finchley Arts Festival 2011 & 2014
Lost Heritage Gallery K London & Cyprus 2010
ARTWORK ALSO SHOWN WITH
Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair
Affordable Art Fairs Battersea & Hampstead
Edinburgh Art Fair
Buy Art Fair Manchester
Landmark Art Fairs Teddington
Printfest Lake District
Reading & Windsor Art Fairs
Penman Art Fairs Chelsea
The Graphic Fine Art Society
The Ridley Art Society
The Ecology Centre
Addisons Advertising Company
Harvey Nichols
ARTIST IN RESIDENCE
Scuola Internazionale di Grafica Venice 2017
London Print Studio 2016 & 2017
PRIZES
The Intaglio Printmaker Prize
The Artist Prize awarded by The Artist Magazine
1st Prize Printmaking awarded by The Ben Uri Gallery, London Jewish Museum of Art
CURRENT POSITIONS
Director of Studies – Fernside Life Classes
Greenwich Printmakers Gallery - elected 2016
Member of the Chelsea Arts Club
Committee Board Member of the Printmakers Council - from 2009 until 2018
'Beyond the Shape of Her' No25