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  • The Times ★★★★ 'There is something deeply, spiritual and, yes, meditative about these intensely thoughtful responses to time and place....

    The Times ★★★★ 

     

    "There is something deeply, spiritual and, yes, meditative about these intensely thoughtful responses to time and place. They feel as if they have been created from a perspective located within the land, rather than as an external observation of it. 

     

    These images are not only about place, but about that much misunderstood word, “soul”. The paintings have a devotional aspect and, in our secular times, that is a rarity and something greatly to be welcomed."

     

    Giles Sutherland

     

    The Scotsman ★★★★ 

     

    "The slow power these works exert invites the viewer to slow down too, to think beyond representation into more abstract ideas."

     

    Susan Mansfield

  • Samantha Clark is a visual artist, writer and artist's writing coach based in the Orkney Islands and working internationally. Shaped...

    Samantha Clark is a visual artist, writer and artist's writing coach based in the Orkney Islands and working internationally. 

     

    Shaped by Orkney’s dynamic natural environment of wind, sky and particularly water, her recent work invites us to notice how water permeates everything: sea, lake, stream, cloud, rain, fog, tears, sweat, piss, breath; as we inhabit a liquid reality that interpenetrates our own bodies and minds. 

     

    Originally trained as a tapestry weaver, Sam’s practice has evolved over thirty years through writing, drawing, installation, video and permanent works in the public realm, with painting as her primary current focus.

  • Sam trained at Edinburgh College of Art (1985-89), Belgrade Academy of Fine Arts (1991) and the Slade School of Art...

    Sam trained at Edinburgh College of Art (1985-89), Belgrade Academy of Fine Arts (1991) and the Slade School of Art (1993-6). She has an MA in Environmental Philosophy (UCLAN, 2011) and a PhD in Creative Writing (St Andrew’s University, 2017). She has carried out numerous residencies, commissions and exhibitions, including a commission to create a 30m mural for the entrance hub of the new Balfour Hospital in Kirkwall in 2019, residencies at Oxford University, the British School at Rome (1991), the University of Tasmania (2000) and IAAB International Exchange Studios in Basel (2004). 

     

    Her first book ‘The Clearing’ was published by Little, Brown in 2020. In 2023 she received the inaugural RSA MacRobert Trust Art Award for Painting.