CLARE MENCK

Clare Menck has been painting passionately for more than twenty years, focusing on the subject matter which at first glance appears to be obvious and familiar yet on closer inspection and engagement with medium paint reveals a fresh
and life affirming vision of the environments around us. Menck documents her own personal life which bears witness
to the challenges and demands of balancing motherhood, family life, and the desire to pursue a career as a professional
and independent artist. She focuses on what she is most familiar with: herself pondering, wondering, swimming;
the persons she knows and loves, her children, close encounters, and the environments she works in.

Menck has refined her skills of observation, toiled with the images of other artists such Lucian Freud, Gwen John, Antonio Lopez Garcia, Gerard Ter Borg, and Gustave Courbet, to name but a few, to develop an approach and vision the engages the eye, heart, and mind of any viewer.