Frances Clarke is an esoteric contemporary painter based in the United Kingdom. She holds a BA in Fine Art and a Postgraduate degree in Art Therapy, and she trained as a Registered Nurse. As an international artist, she works from painting outwards: her research-based practice spans painting, viewer participation and scientific enquiry, and has grown directly from her life as a painter.
Her path began in nursing and art therapy, with individual wellbeing, and has widened to collective wellbeing. Her research now asks whether that shared experience can be measured.
Her work combines interests in early twentieth-century abstraction, theosophy, health, wellbeing and the aesthetic experience. Through this lens, she examines the relationship between the art object and the spectator, and what it may reveal about human connection.
Frances’s socially engaged practice is rooted in her belief in the innate interconnectivity of all things: human, non-human, animate and inanimate.
The Art and Wellbeing Project
This ongoing project continues Frances’s two-decade exploration of art’s communicative potential and the artist’s role in society, particularly in fostering human connection. It brings together two strands:
The Blue Pearl Series: her body of paintings, created from 2014 onwards to support the research. The series is named after the Blue Pearl, the point of blue light seen in deep meditation and described as the seed of consciousness in the teachings of Master Choa Kok Sui and Swami Muktananda.
Art and Wellbeing Study No. 1: the pilot study (2020–2022), with Study No. 2 launching in March 2027.
Education
The University of Wolverhampton (1994-1997)
The University of the West of England (1998-2000)
The Florence Academy of Art (2000-2003)
Advanced Bio-photonics, Bio-Well (2014-2025)
Student of Pranic Healing and Arhatic Yoga
Exhibitions
Solo Exhibitions
Gallery Molenux de Gato, Albarracin, Spain (2004)
Gallery Casa Monet, Spain (2006)
Difusora de las Artes, Valencia, Spain (2010)
“Art As Light,” Ludlow Assembly Rooms, UK (January to March 2026)
Group Exhibitions
Galleria Occidental y Oriental, Spain (2007)
Passato – Presente, Gallery Taragila, Rome (2010)
Vista e Comunicazioni, Rome (2011)
Museum de Cortina & Discute, Rome (2012)
Terrestrial Grammar, MyMicroGallery, Milan (November 2022)
