by Claire Cansick | Sep 3, 2023 | News Archive
“You yourself are the eternal energy which appears as this universe. You didn’t come into this world. You came out of it, like a wave from the ocean. You are not a stranger here.” Alan Watts For three and a half years I have been taking photos of...
by Claire Cansick | Aug 14, 2023 | News Archive
I saw a question posed about whether art can change people’s minds about climate change. I’ve been thinking about this since in relation to the project I set myself in 2022. It seems to me that art operates on a different level in our psyche. It...
by Claire Cansick | May 20, 2023 | News Archive
I am deep in the process of painting several large paintings of the sea and have been asked a few times about whether and where they’ll be exhibited. Short answer is I don’t know. Painting is about what I feel not about what I think. It is a process of...
by Claire Cansick | Mar 8, 2023 | News Archive
I saw once in Paris an enormous painting of the sea stretching 5 metres high and 7 metres wide. In the centre was a tiny head of someone swimming. This painting has stayed with me and ever since seeing it I have always wanted to paint the sea. Working out how has...
by Claire Cansick | Jan 18, 2023 | News Archive
Years ago I made largely monochromatic work which slowly morphed into a very muted muddy palette. I was making work about Gt. Yarmouth at the time, it was Thatcher’s Britain and felt very dismal so the palette subconsciously reflected that, but I only realised...
by Claire Cansick | Jan 1, 2023 | News Archive
As I began this project I collected websites to news channels who had a dedicated climate change or weather events page so I could directly see what was happening in mainstream news. These channels consisted of UK and USA news agencies in the main. I found a website...
