Meet the artist

Painting and drawing have been a compulsion since my early childhood enabling me to better understand the world around me. My art practice allows me time to notice and experience the detail.

My abstract paintings focus on my experiences in the landscape. I enjoy collecting objects, sketching, and taking photographs and return to developing my ideas in the studio.

I am trying to find the elusive harmony and disjunction in the images I create. The process is driven by responding to what is appearing on the surface rather than having an end goal in mind. It can be a rollercoaster, but it is this journey which inform the outcome. The painting process may be extremely energised or meditative as its rhythm, is driven by responding to what is being developed through the marks, shapes, and colours. A painting may take many turns and changes in direction before it reaches an end point.

The spark for a body of work may come from reflecting on photographs and sketches taken in the landscape or several sessions playing with paint and mark making tools in the studio. The rituals and physicality of preparing materials are important to my practice.

Cläre’s paintings are completed when the reach a point of least dissatisfaction. (tutor)

Gallery Above & Beyond

These intuitive abstract paintings seek to capture the elusive quality of the concept of Fernweh and its underlying sense of yearning which - perhaps - we all experience.
Rosie Wellings