Claire Cansick

Norfolk based artist, Claire Cansick, is directly inspired by the natural world.

Her paintings explore nature, whether in harmony or flux, the changing climate and weather events. Paintings play with recessive colour and compositional elements to create a sense of place, mood, interaction and experience, while tracing her path through the land. Claire's work starts with her own photos or charcoal sketches, working quickly initially, before discarding any source material, and letting the materials take over. Her work loosely forms series of paintings, with an evolving but tight colour palette bridging between them. Currently she is embarking on seascapes, embodying themes of self, duality and our relationship to nature.

A career highlight is having three major works in critically acclaimed A World of Water at the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts in Norwich 2025. Her work exhibited there alongside artistic giants such as Maggi Hambling, Margaret Mellis, JMW Turner and Eva Rothschild, amongst many others.

Recent exhibitions include at Norwich Castle Museum, Mepaintsme, Jacksons Prize Exhibition 2024, New English Art Club and the much revered Silent Disco curated by Graham Crowley. Solo exhibitions include at Firstsite in 2023, Chappel Galleries 2020 & 23, and The Old School Gallery 2024. She reached the Longlist for Contemporary British Painters in 2023.

Her work is part of the Government Art Collection, UK.