Artist biography:

Self taught artist Imogen Clarke was born in Johannesburg, South Africa in 1989. Growing up she had a strong love for art, however she chose to pursue her interest in psychology and alternative healing as a path of study after school. In 2011 she stepped away from academics to spend several months in Peru engaging with the local traditional healers and their work with plant medicine. This experience reignited her inherent creative impulse and it was from this time on that she began to truly reconnect the creative process. Her interest in healing, metaphysics, and the natural world serves as her primary inspiration and comes through in the subject matter and themes that she engages with.

Imogen has participated in a number of group shows since 2013 and had her first solo exhibition in 2019. She currently lives in Cape Town, South Africa, and is about to launch a project she has been working on in order to raise awareness and funds for various local environmental conservation organisations.

Artist statement:

 I have always felt entranced by pattern and symmetry, and the balancing effect it can have on our psyche. My intention is to communicate with and respond to these greater patterns that echo throughout nature - the plant, animal and cosmic realms - as well as how they are mirrored within our own multilayered vibrational anatomy. It is also to inspire a sense of intrigue that reminds the viewer of a time that once was, or perhaps still exists, within the subtle spaces beyond the tangible world. We are all so intricately connected, and I feel that ecological sensitivity begins with a direct engagement with our own consciousness and how this then extends out into the world around us.

My creative process often begins with a deep abstract impulse, very often inspired by a piece of music,  which I then allow to develop and guide me as I work. Beginning from a single point, this meditative process of painstakingly applying thousands of stippled dots of ink on paper will take me on a journey that requires a great amount of devotion, surrender and trust as there is no room for error. On account of the high level of detail, these drawings can often take a couple of months to complete.