Studio Vasant

Cordially invites you for the preview of

"The Age of Romance & Innocence"

An exhibition of Water Colours and Etchings by renowned artist
GRAHAM CLARK (An Ambassador of Kent)
On 12th April 2008, (Saturday), 6pm
At Studio Vasant
39 GF, Paschimi Marg, Opp. Club
Vasant Vihar, New Delhi - 110057
About the Artist

Graham Clarke, artist, author and humorist, is one of Britain's most popular and best-selling printmakers. He has created some five hundred images of rural life and history. Responding to the comedy of everyday life, he brings his own unique brand of humor to his interpretation of past and present history through the eyes of the common man.

Graduating from the Royal College of Arts in 1964 he launched his career with commissions from Editions Alecto and London Transport Publicity. In 1969 his first hand-printed 'Livre d'artiste', Baylyn and Balan was published and won recognition from the most influential patron and connoisseur of the day, Lord Clark. He has attracted universal admiration for his revival of beautiful, hand-coloured prints in the tradition of Thomas Rowlandson. The famous `arched top' etchings, which Graham Clarke established a widely successful reputation in Britain and overseas, came to public attention in 1973 when the first one of these, `Dance by the Light of the Moon', was exhibited in London at the Royal Academy of Arts Summer Show, and sold out.

Examples of his work are held by public and Royal collections, including the Victoria and Albert Museum, the British Museum, the Tate Gallery and the National Library of Scotland in the United Kingdom as well as by Trinity College in Dublin, the Library of congress in Washington DC, the New York public library and the Hiroshima Peace Museum.

In August 1993 Graham was made a Chevalier de la Confrerie du Ceps Ardechois in his favorite part southern France. He was also given an Honoury Degree by the University of Kent. In 1999 he became an official ambassador for the county of Kent, a role which he purses with much enthusiasm. More recently he was pleased to be asked to become President of the CPRE (Kent) whose work for the countryside he loves becomes ever important.