Clare Sahling | Painting
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Q&A with Artist
1. What is your chosen medium?
Oil
2. How did you start your career in art?
The economy tanked me in 2009 and I wanted to do something n the visual arts. Oil painting was by default – it was the course offered at the local community college that quarter.
3. What informs your art?
I like trees, nature, spaces, both inside and outside. I love line, but with painting, I’ve had to become more painterly.
4. What jobs you have worked other than as a professional artist?
My career was Interiors Architect. I designed and drew up construction documents for years and years.
5. What questions do you ask yourself when starting to work?
Am I going to screw this up??
6. Do you have a quote that’s important to you displayed in your studio? If so, what is it?
No I have nothing displayed, but I do sort of live by ideas from both Steven King and Anne Lamott. They say that nothing will get done if you don’t just do it. Writer’s block (or, in my case, painters’ block) is mostly a crock.
7. Which artist (living or not) would you most like to invite for dinner? What would you serve?
I would never invite just one, I would invite a host of artists – let’s go with the artists in Paris in the 20’s and 30’s. I’m not going to spend my time cooking – I would order out. That is if I could have afforded it – they like me were completely broke. I would have understood that.
8. What has been your most unusual request for your art?
People want me to rework an existing painting in their kitchen – not my painting.
9. What music are you listening to these days?
These days and any days, my choice is almost always classical.
10. What is on your nightstand?
Books – always books. I read.
“ I’m a product-oriented person and will probably produce something to the bitter end. I love a garden – especially my own. I’ve drawn much inspiration loving the woods, water, farms, and flowers”
About Clare
Clare spent most of her working life as an interior designer for a vast array of hospitals, retail, law firms, and, for the last 20 years, hotel design and construction documents – a niche where no one else wanted to be. She also taught drawing, design and architecture both at Georgia State University and The Art Institute of Atlanta. A late bloomer to painting, her first course was at Blue Ridge Community College.
Oil painting was not my life’s ambition – I came into it purely by accident. But from painful, drama-queen beginnings, I abandoned a career of 3-D hard edges to experimenting with emotional and atmospheric 2-D art. I have become a representational studio painter and have to say I am evolving and growing every day. I’m a product-oriented person and will probably produce something to the bitter end. I love a garden – especially my own. I’ve drawn much inspiration loving the woods, water, farms, and flowers.