clive blackmore born 1940

About the artist Clive BLackmore

After studying at Twickenham and Kingston Schools of Art Blackmore worked mainly as a potter until 1984 when he returned to painting full time.

Most of Clive Blackmores' paintings are still life or landscape. The still life objects have been in his studio for years and it is rarely he augments this small collection of bric-a-brac with anything new. Rather dusty, they stay on a table under a skylight and Blackmore rearranges them and makes small pre-operatory drawings before starting to paint.

Some times the feeling of landscape comes into a still life, this happens unconsciously as the painting unfolds and, when aware of it he does not check it in any way even if the objects become indistinct. Blackmores' studio is close to the sea where the light is often vaporous, silver and still but can suddenly become dramatic and stormy. It is Blackmores fascination and emotional reaction to the landscape which is close to water, even if the water is out of sight, that he decribes in his paintings.

Elected Member of the Royal West of England Academy

Exhibitions

summer show 2011