Biography

Clare McHardy is a screen printing artist enhancing nature’s features with bright colours.

Raised on Caldey Island off the Pembrokeshire coast, Clare has sustained her creative practices from her studies at London College of Fashion where she received a Costume Design Batchelor Degree. Her career has continuously explored the craftsmanship of textiles with her children’s wear and bridal company.

Today, Clare has rediscovered her love of textiles in the form of screen printing. She now experiments with colour on linen and canvas cotton fabrics using botanical and natural lines on exposed screens.

Pembrokeshire’s landscape and coastal scenery inspires Clare’s vivid prints but also her extensive travels across Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Zambia.Ivan’s own unique methodology to create forms that mutate upon the introduction of energy. The repetition of identical elements is a recurrent theme in his work,  by this means he  builds complex fluid structures. Each piece is a section of a potentially continuous sequence, generated by the application of systematic rules to his geometry.

Dawn

  • Hand screen printed wall hanging on linen

  • 136 x 122cm (appx)

Pembrokeshire Blue I & II

  • Hand screen-printed wall hanging

  • 58 x 109cm (appx) each

Stems

  • Wild flower design on screen-printed linen

  • 65 x 94cm (appx)