Judy Clarkson 

Second Prize, Faces and Features, Gallery 4 Percent, 2024

Silver Award, The Blue Dot, Purple Octopus Art, 2024

Merit Prize Award, Water Art Competition, Teravana Art Gallery, 2023

Talent Prize Awards, Open/Colour/Figurative Art Competitions, Teravana Art Gallery, 2023

Platinum Award, The Cancer Feminine, Purple Octopus Art 2022

Nude Category Award, Artist of the Year, The Artist Lounge 2021

Judges' Choice Award, Chaiya Art Awards 2021

Winner of The Holly Bush Emerging Woman Painter Prize 2018

Shortlisted for the New Light Art Prize, 2020, 2023

Shortlisted for The John Ruskin Prize 2019

Ing Discerning Eye Exhibition 2019, 2020, 2022

Society of Women Artists' Exhibition 2020, 2022

 

I was born in Harrogate, N. Yorks and studied Fine Art BA at St Martin’s School of Art. My work revolves around the human form, whether nude, clothed or in portrait. As I paint, I feel an intense relationship between the subject and myself. Oil paint lends itself peculiarly to the depiction of human flesh with its earthy spectrum and plastic nature, and I strive to reconstruct the physical essence of the living person through this medium. In my recent work, I've introduced context through environment and objects that comment on the state of mind of the subject, and, in a wider sense, on the human condition.