Biography
Clare Shenstone
Clare Noel Shenstone is an English artist, considered notable for her cloth relief heads and her figurative paintings. Shenstone's portraits hang in  major British collections including the National Portrait Gallery, London, and the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich.
Shenstone did a foundation year at Central School of Art & Design (1972-3), gaining a degree in painting from Chelsea School of Art (1973-6), then her master's at the Royal College of Art (1976-9). Commissions included drawings for Oxford Playhouse Company and Manhattan Theatre Club Theatre, New York, both 1981. Among mixed shows were Artist of the Colony Room Club: a Tribute to Muriel Belcher, Parkin Gallery, 1982, and Whitechapel Open Exhibition, Whitechapel Gallery, 1983 and 1984. In 1998 Michael Parkin held an exhibition, Portraits of Francis Bacon, which stemmed from Shenstone's close connection with Bacon after he had enthused about her degree show at the Royal College in 1979. The National Portrait Gallery holds a Bacon portrait by her.
Works
  • Seated Man: Malcolm
    Seated Man: Malcolm
  • My Mother Seated
    My Mother Seated
  • Pink Lollipop
    Pink Lollipop
  • Study of Speaker's Head with Eyes Closed
    Study of Speaker's Head with Eyes Closed
  • Veronica
    Veronica
  • Robin and the Chair
    Robin and the Chair
  • David Bowie Fifteen Heads
    David Bowie Fifteen Heads
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