Clare Wilson

You will find Claire a guest tutor on our Studio Practice Year-Long course and is one of the artists who exhibits in our annual fundraiser.

Clare Wilson’s work investigates ways in which the process and materiality of painting relate to the experience of landscape and the tension between real and imagined spaces. Tonal shifts and a restricted palette refer to the diffused light and intervals of landscape, and its potential as a place of transition and transformation.  Her paintings evolve through layering, removing, reworking and pushing oil paint to a place of at least some resolve but that leaves evidence of its evolution. She is intrigued by the detail of a moment, curious shadows, subtle plays of light, memory, and the materiality of paint and canvas.

Clare is currently exploring ideas about impermanence and loss as revealed in walking the tide of the North-East coast - uncovering fragments that find form in the painting process and investigating the ways that landscape can hold memory.