Courtney Clegg is an emerging artist from Arizona that mainly paints portraiture and figurative works in oils. However, she also uses other mediums such as charcoal, gouache, photography, and digital media. Courtney has been painting since she was 17, and went to a local college to learn how to hone her skills. Thanks to her professors, she was able to learn techniques that expanded her skillset.

Courtney aims to convey different aspects of the human condition through her art – emotions, a meaningful fleeting moment, life changes, and more. She hopes that people will see her artwork and feel like there’s someone who understands them. She hopes that people will feel less alone when they see her art. Courtney particularly brings light to difficult emotions – grief, yearning, loneliness, bittersweet heartbreaks, and the beauty within pain. Another theme she explores is coping and healing from childhood trauma and the feelings that come with it. 

As an artist living with Undifferentiated Connective Tissue Disease, some of her works explore her ways of coping with pain, fatigue, and disability. In college, she completed a short photography series highlighting what it is like living with various health conditions. With that, she hopes to bring light to how it feels to struggle with one’s health and foster empathy for those living with chronic illness.

Lately Courtney has been working to emulate Baroque masters and challenge herself in her subject matter and technique. She also wants to explore other subject matters such as landscapes and illustration. She looks forward to seeing where her art journey takes her.

Courtney Clegg has shown artwork in Manhattan, NY, Laguna Beach, CA, and Tucson, AZ. She has been in a 30 Under 30 exhibit in 2018 with Viridian Artists in NYC. She is now exploring offering art courses both locally in person and online.