Athlone Clarke was born in Jamaica, and migrated to the United States in 1985. He presently lives in Douglasville, GA with his wife and children. He has been an artist for most of his life and his work has been collected both nationally and internationally. He is a mixed media artist who thrives on experimentation and strongly believes that there is no "have to" in art. His creativity is guided by the fact that the work should be capable of provoking some emotion, whether positive or negative, and that indifference is poison to the artist. The work should be more important than the artist. The intention behind the work is to do for visual art what Bob Marley did for music. The work should be more important than the artist and consequently far more eloquent than anything the artist could write about himself.
