sunday morning

a day on the ice

Hosmer Pond, Camden, Maine

update from the print shop

Occasionally I make the trek down to Damariscotta to use the press at Midcoast Printmakers. I have been working on some plates with drawings from my late fall bike rides. Passing fields of spent queen anne's lace silhouetted against the clear blue sky...I miss my bike.

tiny, 4x4" drypoint on plexiglass plate, printed on Reeves bfk

6x6" copperplate etching, printed on lenox

put a bird on it

September Sky

24x24"

This is a piece I made for the Belfast Poetry Festival back in October. I was paired with the poet Richard Miles from Harrington, Maine. Over the course of about 8 weeks, we corresponded via email- exchanging working images from my studio and bits of writing from his. It was the conversation between the two mediums that produced this painting and the following poem by Richard.

A goddess spoke the word gold, her breath

passing over water, transforming it.

Before color, first seeds out of the explosion

set out on their long path to perfection.

Possessed by flowers and blackbirds,

I wait on a stone and observe.

The birds shriek and the flowers click open

spreading their fragrance wide.

I shall make gardens this way

with syllables and floating digits.

All belief and liberating wind:

our essence in process

will be gently coaxed out,

uttering its own name, a-shine.

-Richard Miles

birds of a feather

etching on copper

drypoint on plexiglass

waiting for winter

on the multi use trail Lincolnville, Maine

(taken during a bike ride two days ago)

murmuration, I just love that word

This video has surfaced on the web and you've probably already seen it, but I think the imagery of the starlings in flight is stunning. Birds in flight are popping up in a lot of my work lately. I will post images soon.

Murmuration from Sophie Windsor Clive on Vimeo.

June Exhibit

glittering dusk, 16x16"

hope springs, 16x16"

light fragments, 16x16"

These three pieces are on exhibit at Åarhus Gallery in Belfast, Maine through the end of June.

all that glitters

its up

the bones of winter

36 x 15 x 70"

paper, mylar, metal, silk, cotton, linen, twigs, glass, wire, silver leaf, silkscreen fabric, thread, beads

Here is a photo, taken by my phone, from outside the gallery. I hope to have some better images when I return with a real camera.

I had the idea a while ago to make a three dimensional version of one of my paintings. For the construction, there are ten dowels which suspend all the various elements on monofilament- these are spaced about 1" apart. Each of elements that I created either represented mark making that I use in my work or a form found in nature. I owe great thanks to a rotting oak leaf which served as my muse throughout.

'the bones of winter' is what remains when the light has fallen, when white covers the garden, when the world is still.

This piece is part of the WHITE show at Aårhus Gallery in Belfast, Maine this month.