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

Watercolour studies of the figure, painted from life. Loose, quick and worked wet-in-wet, mostly in a single sitting.

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