About The Artist

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(a.k.a.) Doug Clarke, is an American Artist living in Virginia Beach, Virginia. He has worked with small and high profile clients alike with his work being featured in various publications and sites worldwide. Working professionally since 1998, Doug’s work has appeared in National Geographic, LAWeekly, AltDaily, Link, Portfolio, American Way and The Source.  Ever progressing as an artist, he has been profiled as one of the Seven Cities emerging underground artist.

Doug does commissioned portraits, including Royler Gracie of the world renowned Gracie Jujitsu Clan, Pat DiNizio of the Smithereens and radio personality, Alfredo Torres.  Additionally, he was awarded the Summit Award for Norfolk’s Plein Air Exhibition.  His art is collected afar and abroad internationally.

Manifesto

Having a deep affinity for cinema, film noir and movie posters from the mid 20th Century.  My hero’s range from Akira Kurosawa, Alfred Hitchcock to John Singer Sargent, and Edward Hopper.  The list of artists that inspire me is long & lengthy, but from them I draw inspiration to paint cinematically.  My paintings insinuate freeze frames of a film.  There is something fascinating about a heroine who takes charge of her fate in the perilous balance between danger and death.  The fleeting seconds of an impending car crash or a chance in counter with evil.  All of that and more is what inspires me to paint my subjects in peril.  I refer my genre of painting, for the most part, as “graphic pulp fiction”.  The implication of a plot within the scenery of my work is very gratifying. There is more to painting than just a genre although, that is why I feel that I must study the human figure, landscape and light to be able to become a great painter.