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Alison Clark is an award winning Australian artist specialising in African Wildlife painting. Her life-long passion for animals and nature is evident in her work. Although mostly self-taught, she has learnt much from the many artists she admires and has been fortunate to have studied at length with some of those inspirational artists - Regina Hona, Stephen Powell and Carmel Mahoney. Family have also been a wonderful support team and share her love of animals.
Her work has been published in "Australian Artist" magazine and in the US collectors' magazine "Wildlife Art", and she exhibits regularly in Australia, including the PSV annual exhibition and the AGRA seasonal exhibitions.
Regular travel to the wild animals' endemic areas enables her to gather reference material and to experience the animals, their lives and environment. These experiences translate into her work. She has also done conservation volunteer work in South Africa where it was possible to get very close to lions, leopards and cheetahs, and in 2008 spent time as a volunteer at Makalali Reserve on the elephant immuno-contraceptive research program, with further travel through Botswana and Zambia.
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In September 2009 Alison will be having an exhibition at the AGRA Galleries in Camberwell, Victoria, with two other nature artists, Kris Peter and Sandra Dare. A percentage of profits will be donated to The Global White Lion Trust.
Memberships:
Wildlife Art Society of Australasia (W.A.S.A.)
Australian Guild of Realist Artists (A.G.R.A.)
Pastel Society of Victoria (P.S.V.)
(Past editor of Pastel News)
Untamed Artists Network
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