CLARE BROWNLOW is a regular exhibitor at Cheltenham’s Shopping Village, where her wonderfully unique art – she paints using pheasant feathers – is a hit with racegoers IN FINE FEATHER november meeting | shopping village
C lare can remember significance at the time: “I was in Norfolk, at my parent’s house with my nine-month-old son, so in 2009. I was sitting at the kitchen table, I picked up a pheasant feather that my parents had a big jug full of and dipped it into one of distinctly the first time she experimented with a pheasant feather and ink, though she probably didn’t realise its
my father’s pots of ink and started doodling.” It was by no means Clare’s first foray into art. She doesn’t remember a time when she wasn’t drawing and painting and was an art scholar at Uppingham before studying art at Edinburgh College of Art and then Leith School of Art, but that doodle was an important one. It not only confirmed Clare’s decision not to return to her investment banking career, but it also decided the shape of her artistic career.
“I did a few more doodles, and loved the effect of the ink coming off the feather – it had an immediacy, a liveliness. I also liked the splattered effect, which gave each piece movement. I’d be working away at home, in the Scottish Borders and friends would drop by for coffee and see the pieces. Pretty soon I was doing commissions of chickens or dogs.” Clare now works on a huge number of projects – creating designs that are used on anything from mugs to placemats, but
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