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Melanie Clarke 

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​My work explores the idea of the hidden and undiscovered; the invisible and the temporary within the landscape where marks left by human interventions sometimes harmonious and often antagonistic, record attempts at control.
 
The landscape shifts and changes and appears different all the time. Past scars of earlier industry and need can reappear following weather events such as drought or flood or the discarded  remnants repurposed and beautiful wearing the evidence of time.
 
My prints are layered and often heavily worked to reflect these thoughts including manipulating the paper itself by burning, cutting, folding or piercing  resulting in almost sculptural forms.
 
The starting point is being outside, collecting information by observation, sensation and drawing. Collecting ephemera and  taking photos, making collages and arriving at a point where a print method suggests itself. I use relief, intaglio, collagraphs and stone lithography – what ever seems appropriate and rarely have a plan or make repeat editions letting the image evolve and resolve in the making.
 
The retrieval of temporarily abandoned 'plates' reworked and reprinted incorporate an element of time. A process that can perhaps take place over a period of years, recording events and wandering thoughts and sifting out irrelevancies which in turn relate to a much longer timescale that is evident in the landscape.
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Melanie Clarke is located at Studio 35 on the Open Studios TRAIL MAP
​Glenthorpe
Hang Hill Road
Bream
GL15 6LQ

Tel: 01594 562106
Email: ​​melanieclarkeruston@gmail.com
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​NO IMAGES OR TEXT TO BE REPRODUCED WITHOUT EXPRESS WRITTEN PERMISSION.
​Website Design by Monique Oliver Art and Design - Contents Manager ​Uschi Arens Price
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    • Carolyn Black
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    • Charlotte Keating Fine Artist
    • Christina MacDonald
    • Christine Waygood Contemporary Textiles
    • Claire McKnight - OnTharHill
    • David Broadbent
    • Deborah Harrison Sculpture
    • DelARTful Designs by Sarah Delahoy
    • Dirk Van Der Meyden
    • Dorota Rapacz
    • Doug Eaton
    • Eleanor Kercher
    • Elizabeth Heather Engel
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    • Frances Warren
    • Furzie
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    • Graham Wilde
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    • Issi Lammas
    • Jack Waygood
    • Jane Brooks
    • Jane Foot
    • Jane Spray
    • Jeanette Hannaby Enamel Artist
    • JPJewellery - Jackie Poulter
    • John Hickman
    • Katie Sanderson, Enamel Artist
    • Laura Liddell
    • Leah Robinson Art and Soul Evolution
    • Leigh Sladen Glass
    • Lindsay Reid Art
    • Lisa Dear Artworks
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    • Liz Duff
    • Lorna Olivia Neilson
    • Louise Pilditch​
    • Made in Ross
    • Mariette Voke
    • Marie-Clare Mawle
    • Mary Edwards
    • Michael Donnelly
    • Michael Lawrence
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    • Mollie Meager
    • Myra Fricker
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    • Sew Forest of Dean
    • Susan White SilkArt
    • The Little Gallery in the Forest
    • The Yard Print Studio - Nichola Goff
    • Thingamajigs - Jan Matthews
    • Uschi Arens Price
    • Watercolour Puddles
    • William Robson Glass Artist
    • Wobage Farm Craft Workshops
    • Yat Pottery Studios - Adam Campbell