Artist's Statement

The importance of art varies among people. I see art as a record of time and culture. Therefor, I focus my current work on the people that surround me. I often take pictures while I go through my everyday life. If a scene interests me I capture it to hopefully make a gripping painting out of it. If I later pull a picture or two from the many I take, I then draw a rough outline on panel and start laying in the shapes in paint to finish from there. I mainly use oil on panel in my work. I render realistically without making the whole image too tight. My goal for the final product is to have the viewer see a narrative and feel the emotions involved.

Artist's Background

Clare Fallon grew up in Topeka, KS. She enjoyed art as a young girl but did not start seriously painting until high school where she attended Washburn Rural. Her junior year she had one painting receive a national silver medal in the Scholastic Art and Writing Competition. The following year, her senior year, she improved receiving four national medals and 11 regional gold keys from the same competition. One piece from this competition went on show for two years. She also had a piece, Red, White, and Blue, win the Congressional Art Competition in 2017 and go to our nation's capital to be displayed for a year. Upon graduating, Clare attended the University of New Mexico for a semester before transferring to Kansas State University in 2018. Since graduating from high school in 2017 Clare has entered two pieces in a national oil painting show and plans to submit more in the future. After college Clare hopes to live off of her art or use her skills to teach others as an art professor.