IN CONVERSATION
Bold and wild Collette Clegg, winner of The Artist Award in the 2020 David Shepherd Wildlife Foundation Wildlife Artist of the Year Competition talks to Susie Hodge about her approach to painting
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n Irish artist based in England, Colette Clegg has a bold approach to painting, including working with rich colours, varied textures, a lively handling of paint and a free method of application. She reflects: ‘When I was growing up, I was always doing creative things. My mother was a home economics teacher and she encouraged my sisters and me to have projects on the go: embroidery, knitting, sewing, crochet, macramé, painting. When I was growing up in Ireland, we had a black-and-white television with one channel and the cartoons were in Irish so we had to make our own entertainment.’
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artist June 2021
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