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