Caroline Mcadam Clark is a British artist, she was elected to the Royal Watercolour Society (RWS) in 2011.
'In Quito at the age of around four I had my first sight of an artist's studio when I was regularly taken by my mother to see Jan Schroder, a Dutch artist who had made Ecuador his home and who although a member of the expatriot community had been one of the few Europeans in those days to value the art of the indigenous population. I went to the same school as Paula Rego in Lisbon, although a good many years later, where I discovered the art of deflecting bullies through entertaining them with drawings and cartoons of the teachers...
I went to Edinburgh University and Edinburgh College of Art at a time when David Talbot Rice was the Professor of Fine Art at the University and William Gillies the Principal at the College. I owe a lot to them for the Fine Art course they devised apparently one day when out walking together, lamenting the fact that so many young artists were ignorant of their artistic heritage, while the art history students received little guidance in the practical means by which artists arrived at their results. Literally, in the practice of art...
I have worked as a teacher, lecturer, illustrator, graphic desiger, muralist, and trompe l'oeil artist, but most consistently it has been as a painter that I have derived the greatest satisfaction. I have held over 20 one-woman shows, most of these with the Thackeray Gallery and Piers Feetham Gallery in London. There have been others in Paris and in Suffolk and I continue to exhibit regularly.'
