Clark Esplin was born in St Andrews, Scotland, and came out to New Zealand with his family in 1954. He is the son of the artist Tom Esplin and his wife, Edith, also a painter. He was educated at John McGlashan College, Dunedin, Dunedin Teachers' College, and the University of Otago. He is a member and former vice president of the Otago Art Society. He taught first in Otago, specialising in art at The Taieri High School, but since 1976 he has lived in Christchurch, where he is a life-memer of COCA:- the Canterbury Centre of Contemporary Art. He is also a member of the New Zealand Academy of Fine Art. He has been invited as a tutor at many sucessful adult art schools over the years. As a full time professional artist, he draws much of his inspiration from over twenty-five years of travel in Europe, Asia, the Pacific and the Americas.

On his art, he says:
"I am passionate about sailing, my early water colours were often of marine subjects in a free and fluid style. I enjoyed the challenge of water colour, the opportunities it gave for composition with the white paper "en reserve", and the freshness that can be gained from a single statement. My later work has been a personal response mainly in water colours and acrylics to subjects I have encountered in my travels - sheltered harbours in Europe, people talking or going about their business in towns and markets in France, Japan or Latin America, and quiet hill towns in Italy. As I travel, I am constantly recording in my sketch-books subjects that excite and inspire me. I am editing all the time, nuntil I distil my statement. Although I am a New Zealander, growing up in Scotland helped me relate to the European artistic tradition. I enjoy painting people and places."

"Hill Village Umbria Italy"

Size: 500mm x 300mm

Medium: Oil

Price:  Price on application

A particularly pretty work that shows Clark's work at its best.

"Tegole Italiane"

Size: 900mm x 600mm

Medium: Oil

Price:  $11700.00

"Samos, Greek Islands"

Size: 293mm x 438mm

Medium: Oil

Price:  $3875.00

"Senior Fortuna, Lottery Seller, Toledo, Spain"

Size: 588mm x 284mm

Medium: Oil

Price:  $5395.00

"Trents Vinyard, Prebbleton, Christchurch"

Size: 195mm x 385mm

Medium: Watercolour

Price:  $1950.00

"Andalincia Hill Town, Spain"

Size: 335mm x 241mm

Medium: Watercolour

Price:  $1950.00

"Tuscany, Hill Town, Italy"

Size: 339mm x 238mm

Medium: Watercolour

Price:  $1950.00

"Hill Village, Tuscany"

Size: 350mm x 250mm

Medium: Oil

Price:  $2700.00

"Camogli, Italy"

Size: 289mm x 386mm

Medium: Watercolour

Price:  $2850.00

"Abassinian Trader"

Size: 1000mm x 600mm

Medium: Oil

Price:  $9700.00

"Evening in Santorini"

Size: 740mm x 640mm

Medium: Oil on canvas

Price:  $8700.00

"View From the Villa"

Size: 610mm x 1000mm

Medium: Oil

Price:  $12700.00

"Albarracin Market, Spain"

Size: 560mm x 660mm

Medium: Watercolour

Price:  $5900.00

"Sunset City"

Size: 800mm x 735mm

Medium: Oil

Price:  $4650.00

"Tuscan Farm House"

Medium: Oil

Price:  Price on application

SOLD

"Esperanza, South France"

Size: 585mm x 780mm

Medium: Oil

Price:  $11700.00

SOLD

"Grado, Italy, Just North of Venice"

Size: 340mm x 440mm

Medium: Oil

Price:  Price on application

SOLD

"Walking in the Light"

Medium: Watercolour

Price:  $850.00

SOLD

"Walking in the Light"

Medium: Watercolour

Price:  $850.00

SOLD

"Please"

Size: 420mm x 340mm

Medium: Sketch

Price:  $850.00

SOLD

"River Lot"

Medium: Oil

Price:  $6900.00

SOLD