Clare Rogers BA (Hons)

Books - Hand Made, Pen & Ink, Pencil & Charcoal, Printmaking

I have wanted to be an artist since I was six! Always observing and making marks, conjuring up images from my imagination, and later, reproducing a likeness of anything that ...

I have wanted to be an artist since I was six! Always observing and making marks, conjuring up images from my imagination, and later, reproducing a likeness of anything that caught my eye, especially natural objects.

Drawing has remained a constant, and a rekindled interest in printmaking, particularly monoprinting, has allowed the two processes to merge, with a focus on trees and landscape.

The monotype process is a flexible one. Adding and removing ink and building up layers gives an ethereal quality. The flow of open spaces, with deep, brooding, atmospheric conditions is punctuated by rocky tors on Dartmoor, hawthorn trees or lone conifers. Wandering through these vistas, the viewer can be drawn into ‘other places’, sensing the familiar, yet illusive nature of memory and belonging.

My interest in drawing trees continues through to botanical practices. Inspired by many ancient trees, including important local specimens, I seek to represent their magnificence, elegance, age and stature as living history, particularly in times of great ecological decline.