Clive Vosper was born in Brighton in 1947 and studied Printmaking and Painting at Brighton Polytechnic in the 1960s. He returned to Brighton University in 1986 to study for a MA in Fine Art Printmaking.
Working in a range of media, Vosper uses the landscape as the starting point for his prints, photographs, and drawings and he frequently make work that combines these mediums.
His solo exhibitions include Furlong Gallery, Wisconsin USA (1998), Artists Gallery, Worthing (1999) and Nelson Gallery, Brighton Festival (2006). His work is represented in private and public collections including Birmingham City Art Gallery, Cambridge Library, Kingston College and the Liverpool Museum.
He lives and works in Chichester, West Sussex.

www.clivevosper.com

Glossary

  • Landscape

    Landscape is one of the principle genres of Western art. In early paintings the landscape was a backdrop for the composition, but in the late 17th Century the appreciation of nature for its own sake began with the French and Dutch painters (from whom the term derived). Their treatment of the landscape differed: the French tried to evoke the classical landscape of ancient Greece and Rome in a highly stylised and artificial manner; the Dutch tried to paint the surrounding fields, woods and plains in a more realistic way. As a genre, landscape grew increasing popular, and by the 19th Century had moved away from a classical rendition to a more realistic view of the natural world. Two of the greatest British landscape artists of that time were John Constable and JMW Turner, whose works can be seen in the Tate collection (www.tate.org.uk). There can be no doubt that the evolution of landscape painting played a decisive role in the development of Modernism, culminating in the work of the Impressionists and Post-Impressionists . Since then its demise has often been predicted and with the rise of abstraction, landscape painting was thought to have degenerated into an amateur pursuit. However, landscape persisted in some form into high abstraction, and has been a recurrent a theme in most of the significant tendencies of the 20th Century. Now manifest in many media, landscape no longer addresses solely the depiction of topography, but encompasses issues of social, environmental and political concern.

  • Painting

    Work of art made with paint on a surface. Often the surface, also called a support, is a tightly stretched piece of canvas, paper or a wooden panel. Painting involves a wide range of techniques and materials, along with the artist's intellectual concerns effecting the content of a work.