In the Pynck with Victoria Mary Clarke wearable art
WHEN Victoria Mary Clarke hosted a pop-up shop last December at the Good Food Store in South Great George’s Street, Dublin, Ireland, the energy was through the stratosphere. Journalist and author, and now fashion designer, Victoria was in Dublin with her brand new collection of wearable art under her own VMC brand, and her work is absolutely heavenly.
Unusual in her preferred subject matter and perhaps even more so in a joyfully glib openness when revealing the inspiration behind her designs, Victoria Mary Clarke’s wearable art has already received the unabashed approval of some rather familiar names. The emerging artist and fashion designer counts author Marian Keyes among her supporters, along with Marina Guinness and Johnny Depp, and of course her own husband, Shane MacGowan.
Bono is also into her angel inspired silk scarves, as is Kate Moss and Paul Simon, Nick Cave, Chrissie Hynde and Imelda May, who wore a scarf just before Christmas in a fundraising busking session shared with Glen Hansard, singing ‘Fairytale of New York’ outside the Gaiety Theatre in Dublin.
Her design inspiration has been heaven-sent, from a host who have drawn her to create abstract depictions on vivid hues spanning from bright orange to forest green and purple in a wake-up call to shifting awareness of who we are and what we are about.
“I feel we are being very quickly shifted out of the old ways,” said Victoria Mary Clarke when she spoke recently with Pynck.com. “It is happening so fast I think most of us need a bit of help. It is all very well in theory to want to be enlightened, but when it comes down to every day life and the things we are used to having to know about things as they happen, it’s tough. We definitely need help and I feel we are being helped.”
The host that has inspired Victoria to help in the shift from the old ways include the likes of Metatron, Sarayatra and Amatrea, Mellatrea, Luminatrea and Reenatrea, just a few of the angels among the many she has drawn and printed on hand rolled silk twill and canvas. Victoria says that her clients seem drawn to one or more of her angel-inspired designs, their images and hues resonating in harmony with their new owners.
“I couldn’t even paint before,” mused Victoria of her designs that have been partly inspired by, not surprisingly, rock and roll. “I had no clue of what the colours would be and then they all started to come out. Then I started to get the names and more images. I have been so happy that people who have bought have said they got the energy straight away. What is interesting is the differences in the people who have bought from my collection, kids and mums who go to church all being drawn to the same thing and there is something in that.”
Just lately, Victoria is being inspired to branch out into new ventures with the angels, the aim being to create a place where everyone can draw their own angels, guided by the artist and designer through meditation and channelling.
“I would like to do a workshop where everybody gets to do an angel of their own,” she said. “Instead of just me doing it, a whole group doing it, can you imagine how lovely that would be?”
The VMC angel collection is online at https://victoriamaryclarkeangels.com, or email victoria@victoriamaryclarke.com.
