Ella Clocksin

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'Phrasing' contemporary watercolour painting by artist Ella Clocksin
'Singing Trees 1' contemporary watercolour painting by artist Ella Clocksin
'Soundings 2' contemporary watercolour painting by artist Ella Clocksin
'Soundwave 2' contemporary watercolour painting by artist Ella Clocksin
'Your Voice a Garden 6' contemporary watercolour painting by artist Ella Clocksin
'Your Voice a Garden 7' contemporary watercolour painting by artist Ella Clocksin

Contemporary artist and independent art tutor

Working mostly in abstraction with water-based media on paper, my own work emerges from interactions between elements of observation/abstraction, drawing/painting, visual/acoustic, beauty/trauma, articulated/unsaid and intuition/ideas.

My art workshops in Oxford and online have gained a reputation, over nearly 25 years, for adventurous, stretching and supportive introductions to observational, experimental and abstract processes. I was formerly Visiting Lecturer in Life Drawing at Winchester School of Art, and Visual Arts Therapist at The School of Life, London.

A degree and Masters in Fine Art at Winchester School of Art came after a cross-disciplinary background in literature and psychotherapy. And my work is still informed by literary and forest mythologies, spirituality, philosophical ideas about how we know what we ‘know,’ and psychotherapeutic understandings of what can and cannot be said. And, in landscape, a profound sense of place.

In 2020, during lockdown, I received an Arts Council England grant for the ‘Artists At Home Residency’ in association with Jelly, Reading, to develop my 'Birdsong Perceptual Field' project.

Solo and nearly-solo exhibitions include ronapainting gallery, Oxford, Rookley Manor Studio, Isle of Wight and The Wall Gallery Contemporary Art and The Old Fire Engine House Gallery in Ely.

I’ve exhibited widely in selected exhibitions including with the Royal Watercolour Society at Bankside, the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours at The Mall Galleries, the Bath Society of Artists, Victoria Gallery, Bath, 'CURIOS' in the annual art-house-life event, Ventnor, 'Symbiosis' at Darle and the Bear, Woodstock, and 'Beacon 42' at The Old Lock Up Gallery, Cromford. My work is in school, hospital and university collections in the UK, and private collections around the world.