Brian Clarke: Vespers

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Author: Brian ClarkeVespers is a luminous hardback book showcasing the vast collection of 559 watercolour poppies by British painter and architectural artist Sir Brian Clarke, feat uring a preface by the artist and an introduction by renowned writer and art critic Robert Storr.Taking its title from the Greek hespera meaning ‘evening’, the book presents a series of evening devotions that the artist started to paint in Seville in 2019, a practice that continued between the artist’s home and his studio in London, in the sombre midst of the unprecedented global pandemic of COVID-19.In the summer of 2024, Clarke's pivotal watercolour series Vespers was celebrated with the application-based release of a series of eight limited edition prints on HENI Editions.ISBN 9781912122356. HENI Publishing. hb. 532 pages. 559 ills. 31 x 23.5 cm.available to order Show more