LILIA UMANA CLARKE

Born in Colombia, Lilia trained as an architect at the University of America before coming to the UK in 1979.

Lilia Umana Clarke studied Art at the University of Humberside, graduating with a BA (Fine Art). She started to specialise in ceramics in 1985, and developed her skills further at Kingsway College, London.

A great source of inspiration in her work comes from the ceramics of early South American civilisations and their symbolic use of human and animal imagery. Lilia tries to explore ideas about relationships and states of mind, combining geometric abstraction with more expressive sculpture. She works out of her studio in Albion Square, Hackney, London.

Lilia has exhibited regularly at CCA Galleries and the Battersea Contemporary Art Fair as well as many other London galleries from 1998 to date.