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 positivist science, 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.
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:
Solo Exhibitions
Group Exhibitions
To register your interest in Art and Wellbeing Study No.2 (March 2027), please visit https://www.francesclarke.co.uk/contact/ or scan the QR code.
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Art and Wellbeing Study No. 2: Register Your Interest
Study No. 2 is the next stage of Frances Clarke’s research into art and wellbeing, following the pilot study (Study No. 1). It launches in March 2027.
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For more information and to register your interest in the Blue Pearl Study 2026
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https://www.francesclarke.co.uk/contact/
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