A Pembrokeshire artist will soon be gracing our television screens as she competes in a prestigious landscape painting competition.
Clare Rose from St Dogmaels was selected to take part in Sky’s Landscape Artist of the Year competition, which will air on our screens at the end of this month.
(Image: Sky/ Storyvault Films) After a successful start to 2024 which saw two of Clare’s paintings selected for the Wales Contemporary open competition and work long listed for the Jackson Art Prize, she applied to take part in the Sky programme with her piece Lustrous Winter Day, St Dogmaels, painted on a snowy day last February.
Clare is a landscape and portrait artist based in St Dogmaels. She trained in fine art at Aberystwyth University and had exhibited throughout west Wales and the UK.
(Image: Sky/ Storyvault Films) She has also taught painting in the UK, Europe and China and says that she is ‘transfixed by the effects of light on any subject’.
Many of her newer paintings explore abstract approaches that reflect a deeper personal experience.
Clare applied to take part in the programme and was ‘absolutely gobsmacked’ to be accepted as one of the painters in the pods for the heats.
“For a painter it is a lovely affirmation. You feel like you are doing something decent at last. You never know when you work alone in a studio if what you are doing is laudable.”
(Image: Sky/ Storyvault Films) During Clare’s heat, which took place in Eryri National Park (Snowdonia), she competed against seven other artists in pods as well as 50 other wildcard artists who were also painting the landscape.
In each heat artists get just four hours to produce their landscape.
Six heat winners get to compete at the semi-final and three semi-finalists are selected for the final.
The overall winner receives a £10,000 commission from a major institution.
Clare has to remain tight lipped on the outcome of the competition but said that the experience was a great one that she would recommend to anybody.
“I truly had the very best time meeting some brilliant fellow painters. The amazing production team from Story Vault Films were so patient and kind, they didn’t stop all day,” she said.
(Image: Sky/ Storyvault Films) “My granddaughter Izzie came with me and we got to meet presenter Steven Mangan. We’re both great fans. He was such a nice person, absolutely lovely.
“I also got to meet all three judges , Kate Brian, Kathleen Soriano and my painting hero Tai-Shan Schierenberg. He is an amazing painter, I studied him for my degree. To meet him was such a privilege.
“I was very lucky. It was a lovely experience.”
Filming took place in the summer and the first episode airs this month.
To see how Clare gets on, tune into Landscape Artist of the Year, screening at 8pm on Sky Arts and Freeview channel 36, on January 29.
(Image: Sky/ Storyvault Films)