Henrietta works from her studio at Braunder Farm , Bere Alston near Tavistock. She teaches art courses, workshops for adults and offers one to one studio critiques and development for artists.
www.heclavering.com / @claveringart
Henrietta is a member of the art collective CROW, Exeter.
Her art practice is eclectic and diverse in terms of styles and experimentation with consistent undercurrents; subject themes relating to relationships between experienced physical environments and subjective interpretations and memory; a sense of place and facing the self, the physical world and the spiritual human experience.
Henrietta works in series' where a collection of drawings and paintings are worked on simultaneously often with each series focusing on particular processes, techniques and colours that reflect or challenge the themes and subjects.
She is investigating painting techniques and spontaneous drawing that lend themselves to expressions of the subconscious, spiritual visions of the physical world and related experience rather than realistic depiction of surroundings.
Recents:
Burton at Bideford Open 2025
Woman Sleeping (self-portrait) 2025, extended longlist, Jacksons Art Prize 2025.
Henrietta began at Edinburgh College of Art studying Sculpture, transferring to Nova Scotia College of Art & Design, Canada and then graduating in 1994 with Bachelor of Fine Arts.
She worked for twenty-three years in the Creative Industries, in a variety of roles from scenic carpenter to ACE Project Director, attaining a MFA in Creative Writing from Nottingham Trent University in 2003 along the way.
In 2014 Henrietta returned to the studio and produced a body of charcoal and graphite drawings focusing on landscape and in particular the surrounding hedgerows and trees. A number of these went on to be redesigned as decals for a set of fine bone china tableware and are available both as originals and as Limited Edition Giclee prints. The Hawthorn was awarded joint winner for the Thoresby Prize, Nottingham in 2018.
1992-1996 various group shows/ exhibitions and events USA / UK
2014 Solo Show, Galerie, Newark upon Trent
2018 Joint Winner of the Thoresby Open, Notts. exhibition
2024 Devon Open Studios, Broadhembury
2024 Poltimore Studio Exhibition
2025 Devon Open Studios, Poltimore
2025 Jacksons Art Prize, ext. longlist
2025 Burton at Bideford Open.
Artistic Statement:
I am not about creating realistic imagery but investigating expressions of experience as a single being and as part of the collective human experience. My work has developed consistent ways of working: drawing from life - series' of works developed in studio simultaneously usually focused on an aspect of oil painting or a particular technique. Drawing is the foundation of my art practice and my teaching.
If thinking of key words and phrases in relation to my work I want to say: change, relocation, pathways, tracks, corners, alchemy, portals, sense of place together with sense of self, landscape and human.
