Brian Clarke

The sticker book in the activity series inspired by the artwork of Brian Clarke takes as its subject his paintings of poppies. With outlines displayed alongside reproductions of 15 original artworks, this colorful sticker book is a great introduction to the delights of art, inviting children aged three years and over to fill the pages with color and recreate famous artworks for them to treasure forever. With over 70 reusable floral stickers, this book provides endless hours of mess-free fun on the go.
Brian Clarke (born 1953) is a British artist whose work spans five decades across a wide range of mediums but is best known for garnering international recognition for his work in stained glass. His monumental windows have been installed in public buildings in Europe, Asia and North and South America. He was a personal friend to and collaborator with many artists and architects including Zaha Hadid, Marc Chagall and Andy Warhol.

An astonishing collection of 327 collages created by British artist Brian Clarke (born 1953), this monograph is a natural companion to his work in stained glass. Beginning with line drawings in white pencil on black paper, Clarke gradually builds an ephemera of hand-painted paper cutouts, similar to those by Matisse, to produce compositions in stunning color.

Across his five-decade career, British artist Brian Clarke (born 1953) has consistently pushed the boundaries of stained glass as a medium, incorporating new technologies to unlock its visual potential. A Great Light crystallizes Clarke’s vision for stained glass as fundamentally architectural; his works are the result of a dedicated respect for the buildings they inhabit and the surrounding contexts of his practice. The book offers a view of the profound interaction between space and artwork, with over 130 beautifully reproduced images of 68 different stained glass artworks filling its pages and extending into the gatefolds. A Great Light is a striking catalog that serves as a testament to Clarke’s widely regarded status as the most important artist working in stained glass today.

As Covid persisted into the spring and summer of 2020, British painter and architectural artist Brian Clarke (born 1953) began to spend long evenings in his garden at home in London. Though the global mood was one of solemnity, Clarke found that the poppies in his garden remained as bright as ever.
Taking its title from hespera, the Greek word for evening, Vespers is a collection of over 500 watercolors of poppies painted by Clarke during those long evenings spent in solitude among the flowers. Some pages feature a single poppy on a warm gray background speckled with red; others are lush clusters of flowers nestled among blues and greens. Clarke’s delicate depictions of the flowers, their crimson petals and verdant stems, are evidence of the artist’s “deft command of gestural brushwork,” in the words of American curator Robert Storr, whose writing supplements the artwork.

Over the past five decades, British artist Brian Clarke (born 1953) has consistently pushed the boundaries of stained glass as a medium, both in terms of technology and visual vocabulary. With major installation projects all over the world to his name, Clarke has contributed significant artistic and technical breakthroughs to this thousand-year-old medium. His facility with the medium displays his appreciation of the long history of stained glass, from Gothic decoration to the turn-of-the-century innovations of Tiffany glass.

The Art of Light is a testament to Clarke’s belief that "stained glass has an authority and potential to deal with every human condition." This book contains 250 illustrations that present the depth and range of Clarke’s work, with an introduction by architect and sometime collaborator Norman Foster, and an essay by the director of the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Paul Greenhalgh.

Most nights between about 7pm and midnight, British artist Brian Clarke (born 1953) draws and paints on paper at his home in West London. The urge that drives these nights is curiosity. The subjects of these works change over time but are made obsessively over periods that usually last about two to three years. Between December 2013 and August 2015 the subject was Night Orchids. The series began on a visit to Thailand and continued in France, but the majority were made at home. They are colored paintings of startling variety. As in his explorations with Fleur de Lys, Spitfires, The Cross and Industrial Architecture, this varied iconography—in this instance, Night Orchids—generates an apparently endless sequence of questions “about the nature of beauty and the void in which it flourishes.” This catalog of 267 works is introduced by an exclusive interview between Clarke and renowned American critic Robert Storr.