by Claire Cansick | Jun 3, 2026 | News
Studio notes May A show opened, I spoke and it was ok. It helped having reading glasses on so I couldn’t see people’s faces, must employ this tactic again. My work looks more comprehensive than I realised. Met James Evans which was a delight. Sold a few paintings this...
by Claire Cansick | May 15, 2026 | News
‘Water is the driving force in nature’ Leonardo da Vinci ‘Was not writing poetry a secret transaction, a voice answering a voice?’ Virginia Woolf. It strikes me that this idea can be applied to painting; replying to a voice, expression from...
by Claire Cansick | May 9, 2026 | News
Scroby Sands & Aphrodite Reborn are now exclusively available through curators Contemporary & Country. Both paintings were exhibited in A World of Water at the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Art in Norwich, March – October 2025, a critically acclaimed...
by Claire Cansick | Mar 30, 2026 | News
Searching, reaching, grasping for something that isn’t there is becoming exhausting in the studio. I know it is a phase that will pass, but while I am in it, it feels like forever. I am on repeat. Casually failing the dual paintings, trying over and over, then over...
by Claire Cansick | Mar 26, 2026 | News
I am pleased to have my work on the cover of a new poetry anthology, all works are in reference to my beloved North Sea and its adjoining coast. Photos included are by Stephen Hyatt-Cross Published by Waterland Books and available direct or from The Book Hive,...
by Claire Cansick | Mar 18, 2026 | News
I often am asked about the reason skeletons are part of my seascapes, so here are some of the things I think about: A raw response to a crisis in the family; this is how they first began, although I had painted one a few months before. I...
