Helen Manning Clark is an established painter-printmaker whose abstract works affirm her as an incredibly gifted colourist. Glowing colours and painterly marks convey luminous, sensual and unique images inspired by flowering plants and both natural and urban landscapes. 

Dense textures and multiple forms help create these dynamic compositions, built up with overprinting and instinctive marks of bold colour. In other works Helen utilises delicate mark making and pale washes to form lighter sunlit images. Etching adds a further dimension with closely observed linear overprinting .

Manning Clark values the abstract painterly qualities that monoprinting gives her but it’s her experimental and expressive use of the medium that works draw the viewer into the vivacious warmth of the artist’s imagination.