Four days only : 3, 4, 5, 6 May Claire Cansick You and I are Earth
Join Claire in the Gallery for closing drinks on Saturday 6 May 12- 4pm. Hope to see you !
For 4 days only we will be showing 46 small pictures (30 x 40cm) from Claire's 2022 climate project in which she has recorded in paint environmental and climate change global news events. Claire collected images from the news, as she has done for many years, and beginning in January 2022 created this body of work using the place, date and source of the photo as the title of each piece.
Collecting images consisted of taking iPhone photos from the tv screen, screenshots from videos on social media and mainstream media channels and scouring news channels and publications worldwide. Using her usual four colour palette Claire made deliberate and instinctive choices from thousands of images as to which images to work from.
Three subjects return over and over again across the globe; fire, flood and high winds. Argentina is swathed in fire, then shown a few weeks later deep underwater, the US suffers massive wildfires and Europe is also subject to a summer of fires as temperatures soar to record highs. Temperatures rise in the Arctic and war in Ukraine ravish the landscape. Closer to home, Claire shows the impact of climate change on coastal erosion in East Anglia.
Though there is distress in the paintings at the pace of climate change, the works have a sensitivity and a distinctive visual language which lures the viewer into the landscape and urges us to respect it.
The exhibition will be shown again at First Site, Colchester towards the end of 2023 and into early 2024.
All works are for sale at £800 each and Claire and Gallery East will be giving 10% sales to Greenpeace. There will also be limited edition prints available of a few works shown with an*.
Collecting images consisted of taking iPhone photos from the tv screen, screenshots from videos on social media and mainstream media channels and scouring news channels and publications worldwide. Using her usual four colour palette Claire made deliberate and instinctive choices from thousands of images as to which images to work from.
Three subjects return over and over again across the globe; fire, flood and high winds. Argentina is swathed in fire, then shown a few weeks later deep underwater, the US suffers massive wildfires and Europe is also subject to a summer of fires as temperatures soar to record highs. Temperatures rise in the Arctic and war in Ukraine ravish the landscape. Closer to home, Claire shows the impact of climate change on coastal erosion in East Anglia.
Though there is distress in the paintings at the pace of climate change, the works have a sensitivity and a distinctive visual language which lures the viewer into the landscape and urges us to respect it.
The exhibition will be shown again at First Site, Colchester towards the end of 2023 and into early 2024.
All works are for sale at £800 each and Claire and Gallery East will be giving 10% sales to Greenpeace. There will also be limited edition prints available of a few works shown with an*.
Claire Cansick is an oil painter living and working in Norfolk where she also grew up. Her work starts and ends with a choice around colour, usually using only using three or four colours. Claire says she is inspired by her immediate surroundings, poignant memories and current affairs, including climate change, which motivates her to explore recessive colour to create mood and ambience. She works from photos and drawings as source material up to a point, and then the painting takes over and Claire is guided by what’s happening on the surface.
Claire graduated from Great Yarmouth School of Art and Norwich University of the Arts with a BA in Printmaking and identifies as a self-taught oil painter.
She has exhibited widely throughout the UK in solo and group shows including solo shows at Chappel Gallery in Colchester. She has been a featured Rise Art artist since 2011 and was invited to become a member of The Arborealists in 2017. Two of her paintings were selected for the Royal Academy Summer Show 2022.
Claire graduated from Great Yarmouth School of Art and Norwich University of the Arts with a BA in Printmaking and identifies as a self-taught oil painter.
She has exhibited widely throughout the UK in solo and group shows including solo shows at Chappel Gallery in Colchester. She has been a featured Rise Art artist since 2011 and was invited to become a member of The Arborealists in 2017. Two of her paintings were selected for the Royal Academy Summer Show 2022.
Next up - from 13 May Neil Canning in a solo show Finding Freedom
13 May 2023 Neil Canning solo exhibition: Finding Freedom
Neil Canning is a leading UK contemporary artist, part of the new generation of St Ives artists. Originally from Oxfordshire, Neil spent 7 years in Wales before moving to Cornwall in 1997. Neil lives and works in a small village outside Marazion, near Penzance. The coast and moors of this beautiful and dramatic peninsular give his work colour, space and a sense of drama.
Join us and Neil for the opening on Saturday 13th 12-5pm. Contact us for a catalogue [email protected]
Neil Canning is a leading UK contemporary artist, part of the new generation of St Ives artists. Originally from Oxfordshire, Neil spent 7 years in Wales before moving to Cornwall in 1997. Neil lives and works in a small village outside Marazion, near Penzance. The coast and moors of this beautiful and dramatic peninsular give his work colour, space and a sense of drama.
Join us and Neil for the opening on Saturday 13th 12-5pm. Contact us for a catalogue [email protected]