Marie Lenclos, Painter


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Sandys Row, Spitalfields

For some time, I have admired the paintings of Marie Lenclos, so I am delighted to publish this gallery of her East End streetscapes today

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“My paintings capture a moment of seeing, when lines, light, colours and shapes fall into a particular order that makes sense to me. I am particularly attracted to the strong lines and clear compositions which I see all around me in my urban surroundings.

My main sources of inspiration are the streets of London, particularly around Loughborough Junction where I live but, in the last year, I have been visiting East London, preparing an exhibition in Stoke Newington and travelled there by train from Denmark Hill.

The journey itself offers many opportunities for paintings, as you can see in ‘Hoxton from the Train’ and ‘Haggerston’. This train journey with its changes brought about by light, time of the day, mood, weather and season, gave me a repeated reason to look at the urban landscape. There is also a certain random poetry in capturing a passing building that light hits in the right way at a unique moment.

Some years ago, I worked as a documentary maker, filming the city almost constantly while on buses or trains. I enjoyed the surprise encounters with fluttering tableaux seen for a second and gone the next. I grew used to ‘framing’ things all the time. So, even without a camera, I would walk around and see something and think, ‘that would make a good shot.’ Now I am no longer a filmmaker, instead I see something and think, ‘there’s a painting in that.’

When I am walking along the street, I am often struck by the beauty and harmony of architecture and urban compositions. Spitafields, Hoxton and Hackney are rich in their industrial past and the omnipresent brickwork reveals layers of time, creating harmonious tones of warmth and light.

I translate this urban chaos into clarity and order by using precise lines and detail. In painting, my aspiration is to extract beauty from the mundane through focussing on light and colour.”

Marie Lenclos

Green shutters, Spitalfields

Cafe, Stoke Newington

London Fields

Mare St

Morning in London Fields

Haggerston

Hackney Downs

Hoxton from the train

Hoxton in July

Blue shutters, Spitalfields

Paintings copyright © Marie Lenclos



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