Clive Biden first started painting whilst studying visual communication at university in 1972. At this time he also joined the university photographic society

and thus began his love of black and white photography.

 His creative energy led him to a long career in advertising in Cape Town where he was involved in the creation of many advertising

 campaigns for some of South Africa’s major brands. Whilst in the advertising agency business, he continued improving his photographic skills

and studied under South Africa’s premier landscape photographer, Alain Proust. He also received a photographic diploma from the Ruth Prowse Art School.

Clive’s black and white photographs where exhibited and acclaimed at many local and international photographic salons. His work was first published in

Creative Photography magazine in 1979.

On leaving the advertising industry Clive returned to painting. He was inspired by his father, Denys Biden, who now in his mid 80’s

, still a prolific and skilled landscape artist. Clive studied under the flower and still life artist George Taylor-Botha and started exhibiting

his flower paintings at Carmel and Christies Art Galleries in Cape Town in 1995. His paintings were included in a selection of South African

 paintings sent by Christies to Australia.

In 2001 he bought and renovated an old barn in a quiet village in the Little Karoo.

He now had the space and time to become a full time artist. Passionate about painting, he virtually lives in his studio- constantly

 working on his large canvases. Clive  Biden’s bright paintings are now much in demand and in addition to a wide South African market,

 are to be found throughout the world. His constant inspiration is the greatest artist of all-nature-especially flowers. He is continually striving to

capture the vibrancy of colour, shape and texture of the flowers that surround us. ‘I paint simple, vibrant, colourful pictures, and if on viewing one of my

paintings a person is made to feel good, then I have in some way achieved what I set out to do”, he says.