It is through painting that I understand how to view archit… - Brian Clarke

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It is through painting that I understand how to view architecture, appreciate the rhythm of a poem, draw pleasure from the structure of a well-composed sentence. And it is through painting that the complexity of music makes itself understood to me. It is through painting, in fact, that I am.

Brian Clarke

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Brian Clarke (2 July 1953 – 1 July 2025) was a British painter, architectural artist and printmaker, known for his large-scale stained glass and mosaic projects, polemical writings and lectures, and collaborations with major figures in contemporary architecture.

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Alternative Names: Brian Ord-Clarke • Sir Brian Clarke

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When I am designing a stained glass window I am painting; when I am drawing a drawing, I am painting; when I am making the cartoon for a tapestry, I am painting; and when I am listening to music I am painting. It is the centre of everything that I do.

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