Clare Sullivan Adams
American, b. 1962 Neptune, NJ, based in Grafton, VT
Clare Adams
Grafton Overlook 1
2019
Drypoint etching on paper`
3 x 4 in
$150
Clare Adams
Grafton Overlook 2
2019
Drypoint etching on paper
4 x 4 in
$150
Clare Adams
Houses
2019
Drypoint etching on paper
4 x 4 in
$150
Ram Shack
2018
Block-print on paper
7 x 7 in
Sold
West River
2018
Block-print on paper
8 x 8 in
$120
Composture Series #3
2015 - 2018
Reversed Glass Painting
14 x 11 in
$600
Parker Hill
2018
Block-print on paper
8 x 8 in
Sold
Composture Series #1
2015 - 2018
Reversed Glass Painting: enamel, varnish, gold and silver leaf
9 x 11 in
$500
Composture Series #4
2015 - 2018
Reversed Glass Painting
11 x 14 in
$600
Herricks Cove
2018
Monotype print on paper
18 x 24 in
$350
Composture Series #5
2015 - 2018
Reversed Glass Painting
12 x 15 in
$750
River Bank
2012
Monotype print on paper
13 x 13 in
Sold
Composture Series #2
2015 - 2018
Reversed Glass Painting
11 x 14 in
$600
West River, Winter
2009
Monotype print on paper
16.75 x 19.75 in
$375
Winter Flood Plain
2008
Monotype print on paper
13 x 16 in
$300
Artist’s Statement
On “Reverse Glass Painting and Warm Glass”
Although my main art pursuit has been painting and printmaking, I’ve always had an affinity to glass. In high school, I was taken by stain glass and in the late 90’s, I worked as a decorative glass painter. I continue to be fascinated by light and glass.
About 3 years ago, I started experimenting with reverse glass painting. This is an old technique of oil painting directly onto glass often incorporating metal leaf and etching techniques. Reverse glass painting is not so different from printmaking in that the design is worked on as a mirror or reverse of the original drawing. This painting technique interests me for its glossy and mysteriously reflective surface. There are glass paintings centuries old, but this is not an inherently stable medium and may be prone to peel and chip if exposed to extreme weather conditions.
On “Monoprinting”
“I’ve always loved the view around each corner and the dramatic change of seasons here. Monoprinting has become a passion. It is painterly printmaking. I love the transparency of color you can create as the layers are built up.”
-Clare Sullivan Adams
Biography
Clare Sullivan Adams works in the mediums of monotype printmaking, painting, reverse glass painting, and most recently fused glass. Adams’s influence from Asian arts as well as her interest in reviving old techniques and continually pushing her work through the use of multiple mediums, all serve to inform her observational landscape prints and her abstract designs.
The artist’s complementary and tonal palette abstracts her landscapes, while her fluidity of brushstrokes and layers of pigment show her painterly printing style. In Adams’s reverse glass painting we see biomorphic shapes, and the application of gold and silver leaf in antique mirroring techniques used in a way which speaks to her printmaking work.
Adams’s work with the technique of fused glass brings the use of applied pigments as with a monotype print along with the addition of metal inclusions to works created with sheets of glass cut and fused into moulds within a kiln.
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