Helen Clapcott: In the Light of Buildings

by Andrew Lambirth

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In a painting career spanning half a century, Helen Clapcott (b.1952) has remained consistent in both her choice of subject and her disregard of the art establishment's playbook. In this, the first major monograph on the artist, Andrew Lambirth charts Clapcott's unconventional path and presents a painter with an uncompromising vision.

Clapcott is a painter pre-occupied with the destruction and regeneration of the landscape of her native North-West England. Depictions of the mutation and evolution of what was once Stockport’s industrial valley, now a commuter corridor, are expressions of our developing environments and the growth of vernacular townscapes.

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  • ISBN13 9781848226968
  • Publish Date 2 September 2024
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 128
  • Language English