From A Safe Distance

"It was both daunting and liberating working from this unusual shape. With bold gestures and squiggles, unlike the organic forms I tend toward. It's language infused my carved marks, with irregular edges guiding different journeys across the surface. The process has inspired me to move beyond the constraints of a rectangle". "Clare's works capture the subjective experience of being through relationships of colour and shape. Tracing thoughts, memories and emotions to create abstract landscapes with the unexpectedness of encounters with nature. Her woodcut paintings explore loss, with a process of destruction, each day carving marks, then careful fixing, painting the exposed wood. Learning that by letting go of what has come before, its possible to make space for something new. These works have an interesting spatial aspect, as the marks which appear to be on top - the last marks - are deepest." - Clare Dudeney, 2021

Accolades

Education: MA Fine Art (Distinction), City & Guilds of London Art School. Royal Drawing School.

Selected exhibitions: Mindfulness, Visionary Projects, New York and Voss Gallery, San Francisco, 2021. Green Fires, The Violet Hour, 2021. The Autumn Auction, The Auction Collective, 2020. Wilderness for the Mind, Wilderness Art Collective, 2020. What She Didn’t Say, Thames Side Studios, 2020. Shattered Visage, The Violet Hour, 2019. Shapes of Being, The Dot Project, 2018 (solo)

Clare has worked in climate change and energy policy for 15 years. She is currently working on a freelance basis with the environmental charity Sustainability First, leading a project with artists, writers, activists, decision makers and schools on the climate crisis and fairness in society.

www.claredudeney.com
@claredudeney