East Cornwall's leading auction house
Clarks Auction Rooms of Liskeard are one of Devon & Cornwall’s leading fine art auction houses, minutes from the cities of Plymouth & Truro. Formed at the beginning of 2012, Clarks rapidly became one of the leading professional auctioneers & valuers for Antiques, Fine Art & Collectables in the Devon & Cornwall region, being filmed by both BBC (Antiques Road Trip & Flog It!) & Ch4 (Posh Pawnbrokers).Â
We strive to provide our customers a quality, conscientious and honest appraisal of their valued possessions or effects. Our marketing expertise is probably the finest in South West England and our knowledge of and ability to research rare and unusual entries is becoming renowned. We use live internet bidding via world leading platform, thesaleroom.com, for all of our sales thus further ensuring our customers valued chattels gain maximum exposure thus achieving true market values.
We also have led the way in Devon and Cornwall with our use of popular social media such as Twitter and Facebook enabling us to find new customers and trade contacts.
Our committed & hard working auctioneer Paul Clark, has over two decades interest within antiques and art, including trading worldwide within this field for over ten years. As a result of this recent previous experience, he is naturally well up-to-date with the latest fashions and requirements, as well as expertise in marketing. He has developed a keen eye for fine items like jewellery.
Meet the Team
Emma Mullis
Admin & Research
Emma Mullis
Emma has lived in Liskeard area for over 40 years. She has a very good knowledge of local people and the area. Emma has held numerous public facing admin roles, last working for a property developer before joining Clarks in early 2019. She enjoys going on visits & meeting customers. Emma also enjoys the excitement of auction days, providing the technological link between the room and the global online bidders on the-saleroom.com as well as keeping Mr Clark in check!
In her spare time, Emma likes to keep fit riding her pony on the local moors. Emma also played hockey for a lifetime before taking retirement and recently joined a cricket team. Emma follows her 18-year-old son who plays football for Liskeard Athletic and enjoys visiting her daughter at Cardiff University. Emma loves to travel as much as work allows.
Kate Jamieson
Admin & Marketing
Kate Jamieson
Kate has recently returned to live in Downderry, where she grew up, after living in Cheltenham for 24 years. She trained in conservation and restoration and later in historic and decorative crafts which is where she picked up her artistic skills. She spent many years as a designer of award-winning greeting cards before returning to work with fine art and antiques. She joined Clarks in 2022.
She loves anything to do with typography, proof-reading, grammar and punctuation and is very particular over which pen she uses when cataloguing the lots. She enjoys yoga, signwriting, calligraphy and painting in her spare time as well as walks on the beach with her husband, her daughter and Boston Terrier, Sidney, the new addition to the family.
Paul Clark
Auctioneer & Valuer
Paul Clark
Paul ventured into self-employment in 2003 when he started trading as an antique dealer & running a small guest house. In 2008, he focused on antiques & art trading before making the decision to open his own saleroom in January 2012.
Paul enjoys solitude, spending much of his spare time hiking & camping with his lurcher, especially around the Rame Peninsula & coastal paths of Cornwall. He quite likes smaller music festivals, sunny days at a quiet beach & holds an interest in art, politics & history.
Victoria Payne
Saleroom Manager
Victoria Payne
Details to come