After graduating with honours from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, George C. Clark began a long career in advertising, publishing and graphic design, interrupted by thirteen months of combat as a draftee in Vietnam.  He began a parallel career in fine arts with his first one-person gallery show in 1978.  Since then his landscapes, figure paintings and graphics have been exhibited at many Midwestern museums and galleries and have been awarded prizes by the Art Institute of Chicago, Evanston Art Center, the Artists Guild of Chicago, the Municipal Art League, Rockford College, Beverly Art Center, the Lexington Art League, and the Rockford Art Museum.

Working from life has always been a key part of Clark’s art-making process. His studio landscapes are always of places he has been to and are based on his own sketches and photographs. He has been drawing nude models since he was seventeen, and he has learned to work privately with some of the most talented and imaginative models, frequently people in the performing arts.

‘For an actor or dancer or choreographer,’ he explains, ‘posing naked for artists can be a great exercise in their own craft, learning to be comfortable with their bodies and their sexuality, and practising how to express mood and emotion through body language only. It helps if they have an interest in erotic art, like what I do, and want to see themselves in my art. Sometimes I've been able to work with models who are into fetish, either as a lifestyle choice or fashion statement, and with some who just like to dress up (or undress) and pretend to be a stripper, a sex slave, a dominatrix or a biker chick.’ 

As well as his life drawing, Clark also curates blogs on his travel art, his Vietnam War memoir series A Year in the Tropics, and his love of railroads and their history.

George C. Clark’s website can be found here.