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...
by Claire Cansick | Feb 28, 2026 | News
Trying a night and day charcoal drawing on gesso. The skeleton arrives, it is too small, it has more to say. I’ll sleep on it and reassess. A warm oddly coloured diptych arrives. It has something, it is a little tentative, although large. Dot around several works not...
by Claire Cansick | Feb 12, 2026 | News
Continuing to work backwards through my photos of the sea, these are a selection of the 100s from 2021. I was using a dreadful GoPro at the time, which bowed the horizon line, a trope which has entered my work from time to time. I’m drawn to any kind of visual...
by Claire Cansick | Feb 5, 2026 | News
I take issue with many paintings of the sea. Sickly, twinkly seascapes are the toxic positivity of painting. Where is the truth in them? I’m not closed to the intense beauty of the sea, it is just that the unbridled happiness of such works leave gaping holes in...
