Professor Clive Wilkins
- Artist in Residence, Department of Psychology
- Co-founder of The Captured Thought
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Clive Wilkins is a fine art painter and has exhibited widely, including at the National Portrait Gallery, London. He has also exhibited at the Royal Academy and in private galleries in Cork Street, London – including a one-man show in 2007. His work can be found in public and private collections. Wilkins has produced portraits of Sir Howard Hodgkin and Sir Peter Blake amongst others and has been presented publicly to HRH Princess Royal. He is currently Artist in Residence in the Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge.
His writing and paintings have been in print on numerous occasions, most notably in his published work 'The Creatures in the Night', a story written and lavishly illustrated by Wilkins in 2008.
He is the author of 'The Moustachio Quartet', a series of four novels~ 'Caruso Maelstrom', 'Count Zapik', 'Xavier Mannikin' and 'Eissenstrom'. The novels explore imagination and question consciousness and reality, amidst the miasma of ‘being’.
Wilkins is a performer and magician and particularly interested in the nature of cognitive illusion and the psychology of perception.
He has been appointed Visiting Professors at Nanjing Institute of Technology and Beijing University of Language and Culture. He has also been appointed Honorary Professors at Hangzhou Diangi University.
He currently lives in the heart of England. In his spare time, he is a teacher, flautist, origamist and tango dancer.
See also:
The Captured Thought in Florida
What the Captured Thought got up to at the Famelab
Artist in Residence, Clive Wilkins, publishes Count Zapik
Examples of Clive's work The Ambassadors The Bandaged Lady The Spanish Moon Lady The above paintings are oil on panel. For more examples of Clive's artwork, visit Behance.