Cranborne Chase, Dorset

Clare Shepherd

I am primarily a landscape painter based in the west country. I’m interested in the way that the three distances of landscape — near, middle and far — stitch together on a flat surface to describe depth and distance.

Landscape painting from Exmoor and the West Country Studio visits by appointment
Looking over Winsford, Watercolour on paper, 2025
Looking over Winsford, 2025 — Watercolour on paper

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My sketches are the first edit and hold, as well as their own information, my memory of making them.

Clare Shepherd

Life Drawing

Studies of the figure, made from life in a single sitting. Loose and quick, in a mixture of media.

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