and the fish basket oil on board – 30 x 32cm
The entire exhibition can be viewed at www.thackeraygallery.com The exhibition continues until 1pm on 19 July 2024 All work is available to view and purchase as of now
New Work
The subject matter for my paintings includes animals, still life and landscapes. The starting point is always something seen and ideally sketched.
I live in St Ives in CornwalI and often do drawings of the landscape around the Penwith Peninsular where the moorland, farms and fields are a constant source of inspiration. Another recurring theme is the colourful and characterful exotic birds which I draw at a nearby bird sanctuary.
Other paintings can be inspired by something observed by chance such as dogs and their walkers or birds in the garden. These seemingly mundane everyday encounters provide a motif which is imbued with humour or pathos. In the studio, I use the sketches and my memory of the subject as a starting point and working intuitively, often with a lot of revisions and reworking, I aim for a simplified image and hopefully, the painting will at some point just feel ‘right’.
Emma McClure, 2024
Flowers and ivy berries oil on wood – 46 x 45cm
Resting Flamingos oil on card – 20 x 20cm
Winter walk mixed media on canvas – 80 x 90cm
Meeting at the dog show oil on canvas panel – 42 x 60cm
The dog show mixed media on card – 21 x 33cm
Feeding the penguins oil on board – 23 x 30cm
The Tinners Way fields oil on canvas – 100 x 100cm
Going to the park II oil on linen panel – 40 x 40cm
Resting Galloways oil on linen panel – 30 x 30cm
Museum pots oil on canvas – 100 x 100cm
Bird feeder oil on board – 41 x 35cm
The florists window oil on canvas – 61 x 51cm
Supermarket car park oil on wood – 33 x 40cm
Birds and branches mixed media on paper – 19 x 27cm
Table mixed media on canvas – 70 x 90cm
The Flamingo Pool, Paradise Park oil and encaustic on canvas – 80 x 100cm
Weaver Birds I mixed media on paper – 21 x 30cm
– 21 x 30cm
mixed media on canvas – 26 x 27cm
BIOGRAPHY
Emma McClure was born in London in 1962. She did a Foundation Course at Falmouth School of Art followed by a BA Hons in Fine Art at Winchester School of Art after which she completed an MA in Painting at Chelsea School of Art. She started to exhibit soon after leaving college and gained early success exhibiting in annual exhibitions held in London by the Contemporary Art Society. Subsequently, she has continued to paint and exhibit in London and Cornwall and her paintings are in collections worldwide.
SOLO EXHIBTIONS from 1986 to present:
2024 Thackeray Gallery, London
2019 Cornwall Contemporary, Penzance
1994/96/98/2000/ Cadogan Contemporary, London
03/05/08/10/14/18
1989/93 Wolf at the Door gallery, Penzance
1986/87/92 Vanessa Devereux Gallery, London
1986 Angela Flowers Gallery, London, ‘Artist of the Day’
TWO-PERSON EXHIBITION from 2005 to 2022:
2022 Thackeray Gallery, London
2009/10/11/13/17/22 Cornwall Contemporary, Penzance.
2006/09 Thompsons Gallery, London
2005 Rainy Day Gallery, Penzance
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITION:
Thackeray Gallery, London; New Contemporaries, ICA London; Contemporary Art Society, London; Cadogan Contemporary, London; Jonathan Clark Gallery, London; Royal Academy Summer Exhibition; Piers Feetham Gallery, London; Wilson Stephens Fine Art, London Art Fair; Cornwall Contemporary, Penzance; Singer and Friedlander/ Sunday Times Watercolour Competition, Mall Gallery, London; Thompsons Gallery, London; Ainscough Contemporary, Dartmouth; Gray Modern and Contemporary Art, British Art fair; David Simons Gallery, Bath; Eastwood Fine Art, Hampshire; Cotswold Contemporary, Cirencester; The Rutland Gallery, Oakham.
