Clive Hedger

Much of my artwork has notions of the sacred at it's heart, alongside being rooted in the earth, the plants and the animals. With these works, the themes of fertility, harvest, honouring the natural cycles, male and female archetypes are given shape and form. The paintings offer worlds within worlds where nothing is quite as it may seem. Layers of simplicity and complexity, light and dark, the seen and the unseen, the obvious and the not so obvious.
As a passionate natural beekeeper, I am very aware of the precarious position that most wild animals now find themselves in as a result of the impact of human exploitation of the natural world. Many species, including honeybees are threatened by the impact of modern farmimg practice and land management. It seems to me that the well-being of the whole is bound up with all of its parts. These paintings reflect a quest for personal and collective understanding and also a desire to remember what has been forgotten.
Alongside the honeybee, I take inspiration from the guides and animal spirit helpers of many earth based traditions The paintings reflect the intrinsically spiritual nature of working and living in harmony with the land and mirror the notions of celebrating fertility and the ...

University of Sussex
Social Anthropolgy in School of African and Asian Studies

University of Brighton
pgce

April 2011
Leaf Hall Eastbourne

August 2011
Zu Studios
Lewes

December 2011
Zu Studios
Lewes

Febuary 2012
Art Lovers
Park View
Brighton

May 2012
View at the Art House, Brighton

August 2012
Zu Studios
Lewes

Omnia scroll
14 Nov 2012
Brighton

13 Women
Brighton 2013

Aug 2013
Phoenix fair Lewes Artwave- Zu

Oct 2013
Hove - Love sex and intimacy fair