About Graham Clarke
Graham Clarke is a British artist, born in 1941. He was also an author and illustrator, but is well-known as Britain’s most popular and best-selling printmakers. He has created many images of English rural life and history and of further afield. He tends to bring a unique sense of humour to his artwork, which makes them quite charming. Often of his interpretation of past and present history through the eyes of the common man.
He studied at Beckenham Art School and at the Royal College of Art, where he specialised in illustration and printmaking. When he graduated in 1964, he received commissions from Editions Alecto and London Transport Publicity Department.
Clarke’s famous ‘arched top’ etchings came to public attention in 1973, when he created his first one and was exhibited in the Royal Academy of Arts Summer Show.
Many examples of his work are held by Royal and public collections, including the Victoria and Albert Museum, the British Museum, the Tate Gallery, the National Library of Scotland, the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., the New York Public Library and the Hiroshima Peace Museum.
