"Melanie Clarke explores the idea of the hidden and undiscovered; the fleeting, invisible and the temporary within the landscape.
Currently resident in the Forest of Dean, she records the constant shifting of light, seasons and rhythms of the forest and how environmental changes are causing serious concern and how little is being addressed.

Using printmaking almost as one would make drawings, combining the physical with illusion the image evolves and resolves in the making. This process can take place over a long period of time, recording events and wandering thoughts, sifting out irrelevancies, fragmenting and re ordering of the memory.
Clarke's new work submitted here are born by the familiarity of daily walks in the forest that become a meditation on the unexplained, the theoretical and the unknowingly unknown . These pieces are part of a series that have the base collagraph layer in common then are layered with relief blocks and paper manipulation with hand colouring resulting in a unique work.

Clarke graduated with an MA fine art printmaking from Newcastle university following a BA(hons) at Bristol Poly (now UWE)

She has exhibited widely in group and solo shows in UK and abroad with work in held in private collections

Awards
1996 Yorkshire and Humberside individual artist's award
1997 National artists register, Axis."