Lucy Clare Spooner

Lucy “Clare” Spooner is a NYC-based fine artist, working mostly in watercolor and oil. Her work is rooted in her own experiences, and she works from life as much as she possibly can.

A formative childhood spent in the Middle East, and consequently many long flights between Saudi Arabia and the US, meant drawing for self-entertainment on planes and in restaurants from a young age, as well as an early exposure to beautiful European museums while on long layovers. Her parents encouraged a love of the arts, and a particularly moving drawing class at the University of Virginia pushed her to continue making art at nights and weekends upon moving to NYC. After a few years working in the interior design field, Clare was ready for a change and moved to the south of France to paint with the Leo Marchutz School of Painting and Drawing in Aix-en-Provence for a few months, where a new world of art opened up. After that life-changing trip of constant painting and studying, Clare returned to NYC and, shortly thereafter, began painting full time in early 2019. She returns to the south of France each summer to paint as an artist-in-residence.

Clare is drawn to the natural world and all of its subjects, aiming to capture their essence on the pag...

University of Virginia
The Leo Marchutz School of Painting and Drawing, Aix-en-Provence, France