Kew at night is a fundamentally different subject from Kew by day — the relationship between the glass architecture and the botanical life inside it changes when the light source...
Kew at night is a fundamentally different subject from Kew by day — the relationship between the glass architecture and the botanical life inside it changes when the light source reverses, and Clerc's Blue Night edition makes that reversal the compositional principle. Where her daytime Kew pieces deal with the play of natural light through glass and foliage, the blue night palette gives the glasshouses a nocturnal luminosity from within.
Part of her sustained Kew series, developed from original drawings made during her many visits to the Royal Botanic Gardens. Produced as a hand-pulled screen print in Print Club London's Dalston studio. Signed and numbered.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Lucille Clerc
I’m a French London based Illustrator. I’ve set up my studio in East London after graduating from Central Saint Martins with an MA in Communication Design and before, from ENSAAMA in Paris with a DSAA in Visual Communication. I work mainly within the field of editorial design and illustration, occasionally also realising interior and exhibition spaces. My work is mainly handcrafted from drawing to printing. In the past two years I have created projects for Magma bookstore, Laurence King Publishers, St James’s Correspondent, The Loop, Metropolitan Eurostar magazine, Fortnum&Mason, Farrow&Ball, Diamond architects and David Kohn architects.