Katie Clarke

About

Katie Clarke is a contemporary artist whose joyful, nature-inspired paintings celebrate colour, emotion and the beauty of the natural world. Believing that art should make people feel something, she creates vibrant, uplifting pieces that bring warmth, energy and optimism into everyday life.

Statement

I am a UK-based, contemporary artist drawn to bold, instinctive use of colour, creating paintings that prioritise feeling over precision and energy over accuracy. Working primarily in acrylic, with occasional forays into mixed media, my work is rooted in the natural world and threaded with the vivid, sometimes surreal imagery of my dreams. Florals, wildlife and landscapes recur throughout my practice, always guided by the same instinct: colour first, detail later, feeling above all. My connection to Cornwall, where I spent part of my childhood, runs through much of my work, surfacing again and again in paintings that carry memory as much as observation. Although I have been painting since childhood, I came to exhibiting, selling and building a professional practice later in life. Since then, I have approached it with total commitment and zero caution. My work has been selected for a number of exhibitions across Cambridge and London. I'm not trying to paint what something looks like. I'm trying to paint what it feels like to stand in front of it.

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Commissions

I take commissions primarily for large abstract expressionistic florals but am open to a discussion!