Landscape
Styling With Art by Mandy Poernig 5th April 2016 includes a review of my landscape paintings.
‘Cansick’s work in one word has to be charming. Fascinated by nature, her atmospheric landscapes explore the striking scenery that sits right on her doorstep. Her woodland impressions use light and colour to draw the viewer’s eye into the painting. Cansick’s landscape series in particular was one of her first forays into experimenting with colour, moving away from a muted palette as a way of better highlighting nature’s abundant greens.’
Process
By drawing and photographing the Norfolk landscape I became interested in making paintings of woods and individual trees. I live next to a small wood and waking up to its colour, sound and ever changing light is inspirational.
My exploration of the landscape is largely concerned with colour. I love to play with the intensity and contrast and to explore colour perspective by using compositional elements and painting recessive colours. My aim is to capture the essence of woodland by concentrating on textures, negative spaces and silhouettes. Painting landscapes offers me a test in the complexity of colour which I enjoy solving.
My initial drawings inform the painting process and they are the beginning of an abstraction of shape and compositional development. I go out into the countryside to draw and take photos and sometimes use pastels to capture colours. I then work back at the studio in oil on various grounds such as canvas, wood and paper.
Rise Art curator says, ‘Claire’s vacant, poetic landscapes are inspired by her Norfolk heritage. With a subtle use of colour and brush work, she captures the sunlight beautifully, making these works the perfect way to bring nature indoors.’
The Arborealists
I am a member of The Arborealists a highly esteemed artist group with a focus on the tree as subject matter and will be exhibiting landscape paintings with the group around the country starting in 2018. Please go to the exhibitions page for dates and locations.
Commissions
I am happy to consider landscape commission requests. I can work from photos of your favourite landscape to create an original artwork in oil or pastel on paper, canvas or wood. Contact me with any questions, commission requests or for an informal chat about the process, with no obligation.
All works in the picture gallery below are for sale unless otherwise stated. Please visit my online shop for prices, sizes and medium or contact me if unlisted on the shop.
