Our Featured Artist of the Day is Clare Radigan!

Our Featured Artist of the Day is Clare Radigan!

Clare is from Arlington, Virginia, and is currently living in Florida. She received her BFA from Virginia Commonwealth University. Clare continued her studies at San Francisco State University, earning her MFA.

This featured artist has been honored twice for her work. She received the Stephen Stillwell Scholarship from San Francisco State University and the Merit Award from Daytona Art League (2014).

After earning her MFA, in 1991, she continued painting while raising her two children. She also taught as an adjunct Studio Art Professor at Daytona State College. As she was a full-time teacher and mother, Clare did not have the time to paint as much as she desired. In 2010, Clare found time to build an art studio, which gave her the opportunity to paint more often. In her work Clare includes narratives, in which she leaves up to the viewer to decipher. "Symbolism, including pop culture imagery, is usually included, but I avoid being too graphic, because I involve myself in the painting process, working from light to dark, gradually building up layers to achieve a glowing effect, which I can best describe as late afternoon light after a heavy summer rain", says Clare.

Clare is inspired by the human connection. She centers her work around the theme of the pressures placed on humans from their environment. "This broad theme gives me a range of ideas to explore. I am interested in social commentary, interweaving pop imagery, the dissolving line between dream and reality through the glowing light of painting", explains Radigan. In her piece, "Mechanic's Legacy", Clare was inspired by her surroundings on a trip to Peru. "The idea Mechanic’s Legacy comes from some things I saw one day while we traveled by cab to a market area on the outskirts of Lima. The landscape was hilly, and everything was a wet, muddy brown...The dingy streets were lined with... mechanic’s shops... As a foreigner, I came away wondering about the relationship between the mechanics and the sacred places that surrounded them".

Visit Gallery Flux today to see Clare Radigan's work in our "Undiscovered." Show! We are open until 5pm today! Visit our website to see more work by Clare!


"Mechanic's Legacy"
Acrylic on Canvas
36 x 72 in
$1,400.00