Clare DuVergier

Here, Far and In Between

About the Event

Clare DuVergier is a Somerset based landscape painter. Recently her work has become more stylised and abstract achieving a greater simplicity and directness. This move will be illustrated by recent oils and watercolours based on local landscapes.

Event Type

Open Studio, Exhibition

Disciplines

Painting/Drawing/Illustration

Telephone

01984 623781

Email

cfduvergier@btinternet.com

Opening Times

Fri 7th	Sat 8th	Sun 9th	Mon 10th	Tue 11th	Wed 12th	Thu 13th	Fri 14th	Sat 15th	Sun 16th
closed	11am - 6pm	11am - 6pm	closed	11am - 6pm	11am - 6pm	11am - 6pm	11am - 6pm	11am - 6pm	11am - 6pm

Further Info

I'm 57, a self taught artist and have worked full time as a landscape painter in oils and watercolour for the last 6 years.

As the last model of the Polish Expressionist Henryk Gotlib in the 60's I expect some of his passion for light and colour influenced me, but although I have painted throughout my life - encouraged by having a painting hung in the Junior RA when I was 8 - it has only become the predominant passion within my life since 2000. What I recall vividly is my fascination with and my seduction by the landscape at a very young age. It was and still is somewhere I seek refuge and solace, inspiration and excitement. I particularly love exploring in the Autumn and Winter months when the tress are bare and a more architectural quality reveals itself.

I find as the years pass a desire to express this passion in different ways. Although at times I still paint figuratively I feel that a simpler expression of colour, form, balance and emotion are hammering away in my sub-conscious. Perhaps it is inevitable after studying the same landscape over a number of years that your relationship with that landscape undergoes changes and that it becomes necessary to adopt a new language to express those changes. I almost feel that I am painting in reverse. I begin, not knowing exactly where I am going - with a sense of 'place' but little idea of where I am going. Often what marks I make appear wrong - but until I have gone wrong I can't put it right.

I know Horace wasn't particularly referring to painting when he said "a task is easy, once begun, for half the work is thus done." but it could well apply to my struggle to find a starting point.

For the time being I suspect my work will be pretty eclectic as I explore new forms of expression alongside my more traditional methods in which I seek to convey simple contrasts of light and shadow and the characteristic colours which identify a particular location.

I show work at a number of galleries in the South West and exhibit as part of Somerset Art Weeks. More examples of my work can be seen on the SAW website under D.

I accept commissions on a very loose brief and my work can be viewed at my studio in Wiveliscombe by appointment.

Venue Information

Address

3 Beech Tree Close

Wiveliscombe

Somerset

TA4 2PE

For Venue Information

01984 623781

Directions

A358 from Taunton and B3227 to Wiveliscombe. Left at traffic lights, then turn right into Beech Tree Close opposite Kingsmead School.

Parish

Wiveliscombe

Disabled Access

Good

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