About Clive

Clive Sinclair was born in Melbourne in 1951. He became interested in art and studied under John Lennox in 1973. The tuition with Lennox aroused Clive's interest in traditional painting and tonal aspects of art he then became a student of Max Casey. Having studied for 12 months he travelled extensively throughout Europe and in 1975 studied art in London where he developed a love of the impressionists. On his return to Australia, he resumed with Max Casey for a further 2 years and developed a deep interest in small delicate watercolours inspired by Hilder, Sturgess and Clarice Beckett. The evening light which they captured in their paintings and the poetic beauty of their vision influenced Clive in his own work.

He is an Elected Fellow of the Victorian Arts Society Melbourne, a member of the Watercolour Society of Victoria and an exhibiting member of the Twenty Melbourne Painters Society and the Australian Guild of Realist Artists.

Clive teaches art throughout Melbourne and Victoria including the Victorian Art Society, Peninsular Art Society, Hampton Community Centre and currently teaches to the bayside suburbs of Beaumaris, Brighton and Mentone as well as workshops both interstate and overseas.

Clive's popular workshops/demonstrations/lectures include the Toowoomba Arts Festival, Grampians Art

Festival, Low Head-Tasmania, Nhill - Duck & Jazz Festival, Launceston Arts Society, Orbost Arts, Ringwood Art Society, Hawthorn Art Society, Chelsea Art show plus numerous others and lecturing on Clarice Beckett paintings and the Misty Moderns Paintings.

He has judged several Art Shows including the Alice Bale award as a member of the Twenty Melbourne Painters, Camberwell Rotary Travelling Scholarship, Royal Melbourne Agricultural show and the Box Hill Art group just to name a few. In 2016 he was invited to be a guest demonstrator at the Camberwell Rotary Art Show.

Clive has been invited to participate in several book launches including 'Artscape' written by Gavin Fry, 'Art in Australia Vol 2', Monash University's A Companion to Philosophy in Australia and New Zealand', 'Manyung Gallery Art Book' and illustrations for children's books including "Sneaky Peek Tales" written by Prue Ward.

Awards & Accomplishments

Clive has won numerous awards over the years including Victorian Artist of the year in 2011 and has been included in the following Galleries / Awards:

• Finalist in the John Glover Award-Tasmania

• Victorian Arts Society

• Shanghai Exhibition

• Melaleuca Gallery

• Undine Padoms Award (5 times winner)

• Pollock Gallery

• Mingara Gallery

• Camberwell Rotary

• Quadrant Gallery

• Finalist in the Len Fox Art Award 2019

• Melbourne Savage Club

• Jenny Pihan Fine Art

• Aquaelle Galleries, Sydney

• Manyung Gallery

• Without Pier Gallery

• Melbourne Maritime Art Exhibition

• Melbourne Grammar College Exhibition

• St. Kevin's College Exhibition

• Steps Gallery Carlton

Clive is represented in several Corporate, Commercial and Private collections in Australia and overseas including the Melbourne Savage Club, Box Hill Regional Gallery Collection and the Launceston Art Society Eskleigh Collection.

Clive runs many painting tours travelling with his students to France and Italy as well as around Australia.

Clive’s Artworks

If you would like to enquire about purchasing an artwork, please contact The Brandon Circle here.