Brian Clarke

Brian Clarke may refer to:

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Brian Clarke (author)

James Brian Clarke (born 1938) is an English author, journalist and angler. He is credited with two of the 20th century’s seminal works on fly-fishing (The Pursuit of Stillwater Trout, 1975 and, jointly with John Goddard, The Trout and the Fly, 1980). His novel The Stream (2000) became the first work of fiction to win the international Natural World Book Prize, Britain’s top environmental book award, and was the same year named Best First Novel by a British writer by the UK Authors’ Club. He was Angling Correspondent of The Sunday Times from 1975-1996 and has been Angling Correspondent of The Times since 1991.

Biography

Brian Clarke was born in Darlington, County Durham in 1938 and educated at St Mary’s Grammar School, Darlington. His early career in journalism included five years with The Guardian in London (1962-1967). A brief period as a management consultant followed before he spent 17 years with IBM in a range of managerial and senior professional roles.

Brian Clarke (artist)

Brian Clarke (born 2 July 1953) is a British artist; a painter and architectural stained glass designer who has, most notably,worked in stained glass.

Biography

Clarke was born in Oldham, Lancashire. In 1965, on a Junior Scholarship, he attended the Oldham School of Arts and Crafts. He went on in 1968 to Burnley School of Art. In 1970 he enrolled at the North Devon College of Art and Design where he went on to receive a first class distinction in Diploma in Art and Design. In 1974, he was awarded the Winston Churchill Memorial Travelling Fellowship to study art and architecture in Rome, Paris and Germany. The second part of the Fellowship was spent in Los Angeles and New York. He is now a trustee of that institution.

Working frequently in architecture, his paintings, stained glass, mosaic and tapestry works can be found in architectural settings and private and public collections internationally.

Brian Clarke's works include a stained glass installation at Apax & Partners' London HQ,Pyramid of Peace and Accord in Kazakhstan, the Al Faisaliyah Center in Riyadh, the Pfizer World Headquarters in New York and the Swiss Bank Cone in Connecticut.