Collection: Rosemary Gurney Clark

Began work as an artist in 1987, having studied watercolour with the renowned pastel painter and watercolour artist, Barry Watkins. He taught her the love of nature and the pleasure of working in the elements to capture the moment. Rosemary still works outdoors with her easel and palette.

In 1993 she completed a course in etching at Maidstone College under the tutorage of artist and etcher, Michael Chaplin. This offered her a parallel career within her studio, working with copper plate, acid and a beautiful, cast iron, Victorian etching press. 

Since 1987, Rosemary has had many one man shows including Hall Place, Bexleyheath, the Barbican Library and Greenwich Theatre. She has taken part in numerous joint ventures including the Stade, Hastings and the East Grinstead Autumn Art Show.  She has been selected by the Society of Women Artists and has shown her paintings and etchings at Westminster Hall and the Mall Gallery, London. 

She has completed a great many commissions over the years and has one in the collection of Prince Michael of Kent which hangs at Kensington Palace.

“My paintings and etchings explore the often forgotten corners of rural Sussex and Kent. The discarded machinery, hidden buildings and the debris of country life are set amongst the passing seasons and the invasive forces of nature. My etching subjects are similar to those used in my paintings, but simplified to suit the etching medium. It is in my studio and workshop that I produce the copper plates, bathing them in acid and printing the etchings on my antique press. For me, the attraction of an etching is its simple beauty, born from a long and complicated process"