Candy studied at the School of Fine Art in Otago between 1981-83. She did further studies at NMIT in 2003. Originally from Kerikeri in the Bay of Islands, she now lives and works in Nelson, exhibiting locally and nationally.

Candy Clarke is an artist working in the medium of painting, usually acrylic on Perspex. Using bold imagery and strong colour she likes to create the illusion of a new painterly world, one that’s trapped beneath the plastic, elusive, like the world behind the ubiquitous computer/TV/phone/camera screen.