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VISIT SEDONA ARTISTS IN THE HEART OF THE RED ROCKS

Clare Licher

1980 marked the beginning of Clare’s life as a painter. She traveled extensively during the 1980’s, both nationally and internationally. While settled in America, she primarily worked on large abstract canvases. During her travels, she always brought along a set of watercolors, and usually acquired interesting materials from the place in which she was visiting or living. During this period of her life, her artistic explorations, focused on color relationships, form and composition, usually without any external literal imagery.

In 1991, Clare moved to Arizona, and it was then that her first interest in landscape painting began. Her initial attempts were still fairly abstract however. It wasn’t until 1994, when she moved to Sedona and soon became a Mother that her work dramatically changed. As she became more grounded, she began to look more carefully at her environment and her life.

“Landscape painting has deepened my connection to this place. It has also trained my eye to see subtleties of color and light that I could not see before. I feel blessed to be living here, where the landscape is so beautiful, intense, and in many places, still unspoiled. I also find the monsoon sunsets to be perpetually inspiring”.