Landscape artist Clare Buckle invites a closer look at urban and suburban neighbourhoods and expansive industrial landscapes and examines the relationship between built and natural worlds.

 

Growing up on the edge of a town in North East England gave her an appreciation of the aesthetics of industrial places; towering structures and monolithic buildings with their raw forms and stark beauty sparking a sense of wonder at the processes within.

 

Her pieces often emerge from an autobiographical perspective, evoking feelings of solitude or introspection, but provoke broader questions: How do we decide what is beautiful or meaningful? What does it mean to find solace or significance in spaces often deemed utilitarian or ugly?

 

Through her prints and paintings, she seeks to dissolve the boundaries between what is considered worthy of admiration and what is dismissed, ignored, and sometimes destroyed.

 

With a heightened sensitivity to colour influenced by synaesthesia, a neurological trait where stimulation of one sense involuntarily triggers another, Clare explores atmosphere and mood. The inherent repetition of the printmaking process enables layered applications of colour with photographic imagery, while painting allows a more intuitive and spontaneous response to colour, light, and shape in the landscape.

 

Clare's recent solo exhibition at Colonnade House, Worthing, was a vibrant showcase of printmaking and painting with a deeply personal and intuitive use of colour.

 

Her popular workshops, both face-to-face and online, cover a range of art media and techniques.

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Solo Exhibitions

• Wired For Colour, Colonnade House, Worthing June 2025

• Colonnade House, Worthing 2024
   

Selected Group Exhibitions

• The Land We Live Within, Ditchling 2025

• Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition, London 2025

• Cherry Tree Bungalow, Brighton Festival May 2025

• Lions & Unicorns, White Conduit Projects, London 2025

• Guildford House Open, Guildford 2024

• Sussex Contemporary, Newhaven 2024

• Bip-Art Open and print exchange, Brighton 2024

• Claremont Hotel Hove, Brighton Festival 2024

• ING Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London 2023

• Sussex Contemporary, i360 Brighton 2023

• 'For The Love of Print' Sussex Women Printmakers at the Grange, Rottingdean 2023

• Claremont Hotel Hove, Brighton Festival 2023

• 358 Ditchling Road, Brighton Festival 2022

• Man vs Machine, Bare Bone Gallery, Hastings 2022

• The Natural Eye, Mall Galleries, London 2019

• Westmoreland Landscape Prize, Rheged Centre, Penrith 2019

• The Printhouse, Brighton Festival 2018 & 2019

• ‘The Other House’ – BMECP Centre, Brighton, 2018

• Inkspot Press, Brighton Festival 2017

• Photo Fringe, Claremont Hotel, Brighton 2016

• East Sussex Open, Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne July 2016

• Claremont Hotel Hove, Brighton Festival 2016

• Bip-Art Open and print exchange, Brighton 2013 - 2015

• Affordable Art Fair, Battersea Park London 2010 - 2014

 

Education

BA (Hons) Graphic Design / Illustration – Bristol Polytechnic (1984 – 1987)

MA Communication Arts – Royal College of Art, London (1987 – 1989)