by Claire Cansick | Jul 30, 2022 | Archive
After seeing the documentary film Fire Of Love at the cinema I discovered that Katia and Maurice Krafft answered a few of my own questions on my fascination with volcanoes and other wild extremes of nature. Why am I drawn to catastrophic weather events? The film...
by Claire Cansick | Jul 25, 2022 | News Archive
I’m painting this project because it is what I was doing anyway; because I wanted to see what a year’s worth of climate reportage would look like; because it might end up making some kind of sense or some kind of point, but I won’t know that until the end. Why do us...
by Claire Cansick | Jul 21, 2022 | News Archive
I do a lot of research reading and searching for stories and images of climate change and it’s affect on nature and human life. Some things I’d like to make work about are difficult to translate into an image, such as coral bleaching and loss of...
by Claire Cansick | Jul 9, 2022 | Archive
I never thought I would make anything like this; a defined project is not how I normally work. Usually I drift from one though/painting/feeling to another in a state of permanent day dream so the challenge to be disciplined has been quite different. However I have...
by Claire Cansick | Jun 28, 2022 | Archive
I have been so busy with other commitments that making work on the paintings for this project has stalled a bit. However I’m still researching and finding reports I’d like to make work about, there’s a lot going on out there. I wanted to paint the...
