INTIMATIONS
Professional studio exhibition of contemporary watercolours and mixed media works on paper. Expect to see framed and unframed abstract and semi-abstract works, some richly coloured and others in more neutral palettes.
The work is made in woodland, urban and acoustic landscapes, and during improvised collaborations in paint and sound with musician Hugo Max. Working sites include Shotover Hill, and an artist's residency in the Jelly art hub in Broad Street Mall, Reading.
Moving between different senses - sight, hearing, touch - I make notations from the immediacy of perception, as it comes into being and before words arrive to name the content. The resulting abstractions are the traces of that experience of mindfulness.
The eloquence of the illegible lines and marks intimates the unsaid or the un-sayable in human experience.
OPENING TIMES
Saturday 20 May, 12 noon - 6pm
Sunday 21 May, 12 noon - 6pm
Thursday 25 May, **LATE OPENING** 2 - 8 pm
Friday 26, 12 - 6pm
Saturday 27 May, 12 - 6pm
Sunday 28 May, 12 - 6pm
EASY FREE PARKING
Thursday/Friday: park on Quarry Road, Headington OX3 8NU (very short walk to studio)
Weekends and after 5pm on weekdays: park on York Avenue, Headington OX3 8NS, near studio
ART WORKSHOPS
Summer workshops in contemporary watercolour and mixed media at Waterperry Gardens just outside Oxford https://www.ellaclocksin.com/workshops-2023
Ella grew up by the sea in Lincolnshire, in a town with no art gallery and no arts scene to speak of. But that didn’t stop her drawing, painting and sewing her way through school years, at first intending to follow her great aunt, who was a fashion designer in Paris. Art school came later, after a cross-disciplinary background in literature and psychotherapy. But she's been a professional artist for longer than anything else.
She was lead artist at a ronapainting gallery exhibition, Oxford in 2022, and solo shows include 'Sound of Trees' at Rookley Manor Studio Gallery, Isle of Wight, the Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, and 'Green Fuse' at The Wall Gallery, Ely.
Ella received an Arts Council England National Lottery award for Reading-based Jelly’s 'Twelve Artists at Home' Residency in 2020. She then completed on-site art residencies at both Jelly and The Old Lock Up Gallery, Cromford in 2022.
National open exhibitions include the Royal Watercolour Society, Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours and Bath Society of Artists.
Recent group exhibitions include The Old Fire Engine House Gallery, Ely, Darle and the Bear, Woodstock, and art_house_life, Ventor. And as half of susan projects, with Marius von Brasch, she curated 'Pre.Sense,' an open call pop-up exhibition in an empty house in Oxford.
For nearly 25 years, Ella's independent programmes of experimental art workshops have earned a reputation for being innovative and rewarding, and she was formerly Visiting Lecturer in Life Drawing at Winchester School of Art and Visual Arts Therapist at The School of Life, London.
Ella studied MA Fine Art (Distinction) and BA hons Textile Art (1st Class) at Winchester School of Art (University of Southampton) after a Foundation at Oxford Brookes University. She quite liked the essays and sometimes writes introductions for artists’ exhibition catalogues.
Her work is in school, university and hospital collections around the UK as well as in private collections in the UK, USA, France, Canada and Australia.