Madeleine Clear

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About the Artist

Madeleine Clear is a mixed media artist primarily concerned with her personal response to nature and the play of light on landscape. Madeleine's drawings depict warm, magical interpretations of Australia. Her technique of juxtaposing dots of pure and brilliant colour in the pointillist method is so well developed that these works are provided with a depth and iridescence, visually vibrating with their own joie de vivre.

"I am trying to translate into colour what I see and feel. Dealing with scale is always a challenge. I really enjoy the natural elements of line and pattern that I find in any environment I choose to work in. I like to use them to create space, which for me becomes a metaphor for many things - individual freedom, spiritual exaltation and a celebration of existence. Natural light is always for me a metaphor for spiritual light."

Born 1945, Connecticut, USA
1956 - Arrived Western Australia
1963-1966 - Perth Technical College, Associate Diploma Fine Art, Diploma Graphic Design
1968-1974 - Bathurst Island NT - taught Aboriginal wood block and screen printing, started Tiwi Designs
1975-1991 - Art Lecturer with TAFE
1991-1997 - Member of Board of Management of Mundaring Arts Centre
1996 - Painting & Study in Florence, Italy
1999 - Central and Northern Australia - Painting/Study

Solo Exhibitions:

1981 - Greenhill Galleries, Perth, Western Australia
1983 - Greenhill Galleries, Perth, Western Australia
1985 - Alexander Galleries, Perth, Western Australia
1987 - Greenhill Galleries, Perth, Western Australia
1989 - Greenhill Galleries, Perth, Western Australia
1990 - Greenhill Galleries, Adelaide, South Australia
1991 - Greenhill Galleries, Perth, Western Australia
1992 - Houghton's Winery in association with Greenhill Galleries, Perth, Western Australia
1993 - Greenhill Galleries, Perth, Western Australia
1993 - Greenhill Galleries, Adelaide, South Australia
1994 - Greenhill Galleries, Perth, Western Australia
1995 - Holdsworth Galleries, Sydney, New South Wales
1996 - Greenhill Galleries, Perth, Western Australia
1997 - Greenhill Galleries, Adelaide, South Australia
1997 - Greenhill Galleries, Perth, Western Australia
1998 - North Shore Fine Art, Sydney, New South Wales
1999 - Greenhill Galleries, Perth, Western Australia.  To read a review of this exhibition .
2000 - Greenhill Galleries, Perth, Western Australia
2001 - Greenhill Galleries, Adelaide, South Australia