Clare Shenstone

[2] Shenstone executed multiple Bacon studies in oil, gouache, pastel, pencil and various experimental media.

[1] Shenstone's connections to Bacon led to her involvement in the 1992 exhibition Artist of the Colony Room: a Tribute to Muriel Belcher held at the Parkin Gallery.

“Distinctive, penetrating eye for the psychological make-up of her sitters” – John Rosenfield, Art Historian and Professor Emeritus, Harvard University.

Lisa has commented that it is a curious experience to rediscover an artist in the process of discovering the work of another.” Dame Elizabeth Esteve-Coll, Director of the Victoria and Albert Museum 1987–95.

“Again and again she presents an image of someone close-by and alert, a bodily presence; again and again we are reminded that there is also a spiritual being, barely to be grasped by material means, one that we have to meet halfway by engaging with the only slightest touches of the brush.” Art historian, Norbert Lynton.