About

Candice Clarke was born in Trinidad & Tobago and raised in England and Canada. She has lived in both New York and Japan and currently calls Toronto home. With a background in English language education and sociology, she is interested in the role of art as a space for exploration, healing, and communication. She is currently developing a studio practice that bridges painting and print-based processes.

Artist Statement

My work explores the unstable boundary between our inner and outer selves and the visible world. I paint figures, abstractions, and symbolic interiors as if they are all part of the same psychological landscape — shifting, porous, and alive. Faces dissolve into patterns, nature conceals spirit traces, rooms behave like bodies, and color becomes a form of emotional weather.

I’m drawn to states of transition: thresholds, ruptures, entanglements, moments when identity feels fluid or uncertain. The work is expressive and maximal, but it’s also searching — for coherence, for meaning, for a way to inhabit and to navigate the complexity of being. Each painting is a site where memory, sensation, and imagination collide.

I’m less interested in realism than in using art as vehicle for opening doors to how we can experience, imagine, de- and re-construct our worlds.