Eileen Clark

 Eileen Clark was born in Cumbria. As a child she spent her time walking in the mountains and by the lakes with her parents and brother, and visiting her grandparents’ home, a  cottage overlooking Lake Windermere. In her teens Eileen’s parents bought her a set of oil paints and she developed her interest in painting the Cumbrian landscape.  Graduating in Fine Art at Leeds University, she went on to teach, and in 1993 decided to follow her first love, painting.

For the last sixteen years she has concentrated on waterscapes. Working on canvas and canvas board, often with small brushes and thin layers of oil paint, she has developed an atmospheric style from her careful studies of the effects of light on water.  Her ambition is to capture the ‘timeless’ quality of the Lakes and she hopes to share, through her paintings, her belief in their power to inspire, rejuvenate and heal. She has a great love of being on or around water, and with her husband, son and faithful border collie on board, she tries to spend as much time as she can on the lakes, gathering sketches and photographs for her paintings.

 Eileen’s original oil paintings are available only from a small number of select galleries, including www.beckstonesartgallery.co.uk, www.galart.co.uk and www.thornthwaitegalleries.co.uk, and she is sometimes able to accept commissions. She can be contacted directly through her website, www.eileenclark.co.uk, where many examples of her work may be viewed. She is also a member of the Cockermouth Independent Artists group: www.icartists.org.uk

 Copyright: all rights to the sale, reproduction and distribution of her works are retained by the artist. ©1993-2008