Anthony Clark's work is dominated by the two linked ideas of 'belief' and 'pilgrimage.'
What belief means for him is the fundamental 'realisation' of subject that each painting involves: it is what is in the subject and needs the artist to celebrate it.
Painting as a kind of pilgrimage basically refers to numerous actual journeys to locations in Europe - Russia, Italy, France, Crete, Toledo and Turkey - but has the deeper sense of the artist's mature years of creative growth whereby belief itself has been made real in the exploration of painting.
The critic William Feaver wrote of his work "He turns his back on the crowd and sees visions for himself."
Anthony sees his development as a painter in terms of "a constant struggle for the light of understanding."
His art is a fight for optimism, and success, therefore, has to be measured above all in terms of celebration.
"I am asked sometimes how I know when a painting is finished and the only answer
I can give is simply that it must sing with joy!"
