Claire Cansick

Norfolk artist Claire Cansick is directly inspired by nature and colour.

Her paintings explore the natural world, whether in harmony or flux, the changing climate and weather events. Her work plays with recessive colour and compositional elements to create a sense of place, mood, interaction and experience, while tracing her path through the landscape. Claire's work starts with her own photos or sketches, working quickly initially before discarding the source material and letting the paint take over. Her work loosely forms series of paintings, with an evolving but tight colour palette bridging between them. Currently she is embarking on several paintings of the sea swimmer's vista.

Recent exhibitions include the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Jacksons Prize Exhibition at Bankside Gallery and the much revered Silent Disco 2024 , with solo exhibitions at Chappel Galleries, Gallery East, Firstsite in 2023 and Old School Gallery 2024. In 2025 Claire will have paintings in Can The Seas Survive Us? at the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts.