Commissions
Every year Clova carries out several commissions and will consider proposals of any size, in most media.
These might include the following: gouache, oil, distemper, pen and ink, pencil and mixed media.
Due to the range of her work, she is able to tackle most genres whether Still life, Landscape or Architecture.
“I was so moved by what you have created - a picture of extraordinary vibrancy and depth, but also paying homage to the integrity of the pots...”
Often commissions are seasonally linked
Magnolia in flower beyond a sitting room window
A still life with old roses, columbine and ceramic vessels
A garden vista with the lavender at its peak
A canal-side house and surrounding landscape in high summer
Wisteria in a walled garden or a window sill with a row of hyacinths
Clova always works from life – and, if it is not possible to do a large piece of work in situ, she works from drawings and colour studies.
“The painter of my pots does well! It is normal for painters not to be able to show pots in their work. Somehow they can very seldom catch the 3D element and miss the nature of the pot. These are good!”
Teaching
Teaching has always and continues to be a valued and much enjoyed element of Clova's career. On completing her Postgraduate studies at the Royal Academy she did a specialist Art Teaching qualification at Goldsmiths' College. Since then she has balanced a portfolio of teaching with her painting practice. After teaching Art and Art History at St Paul's School, Barnes and Radley College; she then diversified into the teaching of adults at Sunningwell School of Art. Currently, having concluded a long period in the dynamic and adventurous Art Department at OLASS in Oxfordshire she has returned to teach at Sunningwell. http://artschool.org.uk.
She is also a Short Course Tutor at the Ruskin School of Art, Oxford University where she has taught some unusual Summer Courses relating to the still life, notably ‘Deconstructing Cubism’, and also some life drawing, over a number of years. A ‘short course’ highlight was teaching a version of the Cubism course to a large group of BA and MA Fine Art students from China at St Anthony’s College, organised by the Oxford Global Prospects Development Centre.