zarina stewart-clark

Zarina Stewart-Clark spent her early childhood in Holland but has lived most of her life in the UK. Both her Scottish and Dutch ancestry inform her primary motif of the sky and the expansive language of their contrasting landscapes continue to inform her practice today.

She is largely self-taught, “nature being my greatest teacher. I think of my art as a way of entering into dialogue with the landscape. It comes from my years as an artist, of paying deep attention to the landscape - not only to the names of places but to the sense of what has stood fast through
time - the mountains and seas that have existed for millennia, exposing and contrasting with our fragile, brief realities”.

Her work embodies the transient light of the West Coast of Scotland, where light and darkness fall with equal intensity: the broken passing light on hill and shoreline, scalpels of light on sea, wind torn blown skies.

Working in both oil and traditional egg tempera on chalk boards, she creates light and luminosity through the building up of multiple layers of veiled glazes, repeatedly scraping back to expose passages of light, inviting a contemplative response to still moments in time.

Zarina exhibits throughout the UK and lives between Suffolk and Scotland.