Daphne McClure was born in Helston, Cornwall, in 1930. She attended the Hornsey College of Art and the Central School of Art. She worked for a while at the Royal Opera House and in 1976 she left Oxford to return home to Cornwall where she now paints full time from her studio. 

In 1995 she was commissoned by the Tate Gallery in St Ives, Cornwall, to design a piece of work to exhibit for its first exhibition. Her work is now collectable and found in many private collections. In 2005 she was invited to Connecticut, USA, for an artists residency. More information on this artist can be obtained by contacting the gallery. 

Later, travelling around the coast near St Ives, her work displays an expressive handling of the subject and it’s emotional intensity combine with calligraphic scratchy references. Coming round Land’s End to Newlyn, where McClure has long been a member of the Newlyn Society of Artists, the journey of her work continues and finally rests in Penzance, her present home and the inspiration behind her latest and in many ways her most quintessential work.