Categories Birds and Animals, Cityscape, Landscape

Michele Clamp

Born and educated in England Michele didn’t really discover art until her teenage years.  ‘My father was a talented artist when he was young. I remember sitting beside him as he sketched outside in the Suffolk countryside.   I had my own small sketchbook and tried to learn from him as he drew the landscape – marking in color and lighting notes as he went. Frankly I wasn’t very good at that point but the joy of drawing had been planted.’  

The art bug didn’t really bite Michele until she was about 13.  ‘Somehow something clicked in a school art lesson. Our art teacher had put a group of us in front of a huge old mechanical typewriter and we were instructed to draw it.  It wasn’t an easy subject for any of us. And yet the longer I looked the more the complex mechanical shapes made sense and my pencil followed suit. I’d discovered the pleasure of truly seeing something and  representing it on paper.’