Maxine Clements lives and works in Suffolk, England. She graduated from Falmouth College of Art - BA Fine Art, 2006.

Having lived much of her life in the English countryside and her childhood in Umbria, Italy, her work is rooted in landscape. The spontaneous approach to starting a painting reflects her interest in shape, pattern and line, while drawing on childhood memories, motherhood, maternal wounds and illness to explore deeper meaning beyond surface paint.

The places Max paints suggest sculptural worlds, somewhere between fantasy, memory and decorative beauty. Bold colours applied over thin washes of interlinked shapes and lines, result in a thick textured surface, playfully revealing space and light behind.

“Illness is a reoccurring theme in my work, specifically breast cancer, treatment and aftermath. Exploring the emotions and visions I had when I was repeatedly drawn away from reality into a strange chemo cocktail fuelled world. Sometimes in the days after chemo, I thought I had escaped the ‘chemo tunnel’ only to find myself submerged in the heart of it.

Drawings I made during these months of cancer treatment inform many of my paintings, it is an inescapable realm that I repeatedly explore”.

 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2023 Marshmallow, The Watch House, Orford, Suffolk

2022 BLAZE, The Watch House, Orford, Suffolk

2021 ALBA, North Coast Asylum, Newquay, Cornwall

Curation

2024 MOTHERFATHER, Asylum Studios, Rendlesham, Suffolk

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2024 MOTHERFATHER, Asylum Studios, Rendlesham, Suffolk

2024 For Folk Sake, The Cut, Halesworth, Suffolk

2024 Scrubland, Butley Mills Studio Gallery, Butley, Suffolk

2024 Summer Contemporary, Britten Pears Arts, Snape, Suffolk

2024 Minories Open Exhibition, The Minories, Colchester, Essex

2024 Open Studios, Asylum Studios, Rendlesham, Suffolk

2024 Noon to Moon, Kensington Gardens, First Light Festival, Lowestoft, Suffolk

2024 Unconsumed II, The Shoe Factory, Norwich, Norfolk

2024 FRESH GIGANTIC! Butley Mills Studios Gallery, Butley, Suffolk

2023 The Bakers Dozen, The Watch House, Orford, Suffolk

2023 The Cut Open, The Cut, Halesworth, Suffolk

2023 Distant Lands, with Amy Gladding, 142 Gallery, Felixstowe, Suffolk

2023 A Green Thought In A Green Shade, Art Space, Woodbridge, Suffolk

2023 Coalesce, 142 Gallery, Suffolk

2023 Noon to Moon, Kensington Gardens, First Light Festival, Lowestoft, Suffolk

2023 Unconsumed, The Shoe Factory, Norwich, Norfolk

2022 Animal, Vegetable, Mineral, The Art Station, Saxmundham, Suffolk

2022 Poetry in Aldeburgh Festival, Ballroom Arts, Aldeburgh, Suffolk

2022 FLAGS, The Art Station, Saxmundham, Suffolk

2022 studioUS, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk

2021 Group Show, Asylum Studios, Rendlesham, Suffolk

2021 Mesmerism, North Coast Asylum, Newquay, Cornwall

2021 Winter Exhibition, Fairhurst Gallery, Norwich, Norfolk

2021 For Suffolk Sake, The Art Station, Saxmundham, Suffolk

2021 The Merchants Table, Woodbrodge, Suffolk

2021 The Waiting Place, The Art Station, Saxmundham, Suffolk

2020 Landscapes, North Coast Asylum, Newquay, Cornwall