Wendy Clouse

Background:
MY FORMAL ART EDUCATION BEGAN WITH FOUR YEARS AT THE ‘ART ACADEMY OF EL PASO’ IN TEXAS USA.
A FEW YEARS LATER AND BACK LIVING IN ENGLAND I ATTENDED ‘HEATHERLEYS IN CHELSEA WHERE I COMPLETED A TWO YEAR
‘DIPLOMA IN PORTRAITURE’ COURSE. IMMEDIATELY AFTER THIS I DECIDED TO WORK ON A MASTERS DEGREE. I CONTINUED WITH MY LOVE OF PORTRAITURE, WRITING MY DISERTATION ON
‘THE RELEVANCE OF THE SELF PORTRAIT’.
SINCE COMPLETING THE MA I HAVE EXHIBITED WITH MANY OF THE LONDON SOCIETY’S INCLUDING;
THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF PORTRAIT PAINTERS.
THE NEW ENGLISH ART CLUB.
NATIONAL SOCIETY OF ACRYLIC PAINTERS (OF WHICH I AM A MEMBER.
THE SOCIETY OF WILD LIFE ARTISTS.
THE PASTEL SOCIETY.
THE ROYAL WATERCOLOUR SOCIETY
THE SOUTHWEST ACADEMY, EXETER.
IN ADDITION OVER THE YEARS, A NUMBER OF ONE WOMAN EXHIBITIONS,

THREE ART BOOKS HAVE BEEN PUBLISHED BY HAMLYN AND SEARCH PRESS AND ALSO SEVERAL MAGAZINE ARTICLES.

CURRENTLY I RUN ‘THE WENDY CLOUSE PAINTING SCHOOL’ FROM MY STUDIO IN SHEPPERTON.

JOHN SINGER SARGENT IS AN ARTIST THAT I HAVE ADMIRED FOR MANY YEARS FOR HIS SUPERB PORTRAITURE AND HIS LOOSE BRUSHWORK. EDWARD HOPPER FOR HIS IN YOUR FACE FRANKNESS, SEUARAT FOR HIS WONDERFUL COMPOSITIONS AND ‘THE BLAUE REITER’ FOR THEIR INVENTIVE USE OF COLOUR.

Publications:
Landscape in Acrylics. Search Press                    1988

Step by Step Art School. Acrylics Hamlyn         1989
Republished October 2005.

Painting in Acrylics. Search Press                          1991

Drawing and Painting. Hamlyn                                1992

Exhibitions:

Various joint and one-woman exhibitions.
USA.  (Texas, Iowa, Nebraska)                               1972-76

Various joint and one woman exhibitions.
Germany. (Heidelberg, Augsburg, Bad Tolz.)  1975-80

One-woman exhibitions.
The Boathouse Gallery,                                    Every year from

Walton on Thames, England                           1981 to 2000

Contemporary Portrait Society
London                                                                    1986

Paris                                                                          1987

New English Art Club. Mall Gallery,
London                                                                    1998

Royal Society of Portrait Painters
London                                                                    1999

National Society of Acrylic Painters.
London                                                                    2000

Society of Wild Life Artists
London                                                                    2001

Chichester Open Exhibition.
Chichester England

The British Society of Graduate Artists
London                                                                    2002

The Pastel Society.
London                            2002

The South West Academy
Exeter, England                                                   2002

The Robert Phillips Gallery
Walton on Thames, England                          2004

The Royal Watercolour Society
London.                                                                 2007

One woman exhibition
Denbies Vineyard, Dorking, Surrey           2007

One woman exhibition
Arte Gallery, Weybridge, Surrey                2008

The Wendy Clouse PaintingSchool,
Opening Exhibition
Shepperton, Middlesex                                   2009