Maya Collage

Clare is an artist and yoga teacher. She began her artistic career painting portraits and was exhibited in the BP portrait awards show at The National Portrait Gallery in London. She went on to gain an international reputation as one of the leading modern fore-edge painters. Her recent artwork is influenced by her esoteric and yoga interests. 'In my artwork I use classical mythology, literature and films aswell as my own life experiences to analyse what it means to be a woman. I use the female form to show how subtle changes of shape in the outer expression can tell of shifts in the depths of the psyche. By combining charcoal drawings or paintings in oil with collaged text from film scripts, classical literature or my own writing I create a rich layering of script and image to express life's experiences and emotions.'