Clare Ceprynski is a London-based artist.

From University College London she graduated with a BA in History of Art, specialising in Early Renaissance Painting.

In 2001, she completed an MA Fine Art (Distinction) at Goldsmiths College, London under the tutelage of Gerard Hemsworth. During this period, she was developing a series of installed, large-scale photographic works that extended our world into frozen, constructed spaces. These were exhibited at numerous London shows.

Fine art installation work led to a career in interior design for luxury fashion brands but her hands-on creativity led her back to painting. She continues her interest in life-size walk-in spaces, this time painted from life using oil on canvas, a medium that is alive with time and historical content.

Her fine art conceptual background through painting pushes her to explore unconventional portraiture, investigating interpersonal dynamics between artist and model. She employs dynamic techniques that create a powerful sense of atmosphere with strongly contrasting light and shadow, progressive brushwork, and rich textures created through impasto.

Through drawing, Clare combines memory and observation with her fascination for multi-figure compositions, using the life room as a springboard to investigate embodiment, group dynamics, and the history of drawing directly from the life model. The result, Histories, is an ongoing series of drawings composed during open four-hour studio sessions with a model. As large-scale drawings, they employ a free and unconventional technique to create dynamic narrative scenes, often with implied religious or mythological subject matter.

Clare has been exhibited twice at the National Portrait Gallery, London in 2020 and again in 2026 as part of the BP Portrait Awards and the HSFK Portrait Award.

Clare paints daily in her studio, working on both conceptual and commissioned work.

A full Artist CV and Exhibition List are available on request.