by Claire Cansick | Oct 16, 2022 | Archive
Catching up with painting images for my project reveals that I will probably finish the whole thing around March next year. I have so much work to do, so many images to study, write about and paint as well as the finishing touches which alone will take me a few weeks...
by Claire Cansick | Oct 1, 2022 | Archive
I’ve been in a transient state with my work since 2018. Moving out of a period of making a specific thing and speaking in a certain voice is always difficult because of the parameters we unwittingly set ourselves. Creativity should feel awkward and scary, never safe,...
by Claire Cansick | Sep 8, 2022 | Archive
Despite being a biodynamic gardener, practicing yoga, having cats and sometimes being labelled a hippy I am actually a logical thinker. I am on the side of science and yet also realise it doesn’t know it all. I have an interest in facts and am keen for my musings and...
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...
