Clare Wilson, 'Once More The Flood'

Clare Wilson’s work investigates ways in which the process and materiality of painting relates to the experience of landscape and the tension between real and imagined spaces. Tonal shifts and a restricted palette refers to the diffused light and intervals of landscape, and its potential as a place of transition and transformation. Her paintings evolve through layering, removing, reworking and pushing oil paint to find a form that leaves evidence of its evolution. She is intrigued by the detail of a moment, curious shadows, subtle plays of light, memory, and the materiality of paint and canvas.

Clare is currently exploring ideas about impermanence and loss as revealed in walking the tide of the northeast coast - uncovering fragments that find form in the painting process and investigating the ways that landscape can hold memory.

Clare Wilson completed an MA in Fine Art at The University of Leeds in 1996.

Recent shows include: Lido Open, Lido Stores, Margate (2024) It Rose it Fell, Terrace Gallery, London (2024) Fight Flight or Freeze, Pictorem Gallery, London (2024) A room of one’s own, Irving Gallery, Oxford (2024) Lido Open, Lido Stores, Margate (2023) Goddesses on Sea, Lido Stores, Margate (2023) The Goddesses - A love explosion, Terrace Gallery, London (2023) A Generous space, Walsall Art gallery (2022) Seeing, Feeling, Forgetting, APT Gallery, London (2022) Seedbomb, Terrace Gallery, London (2022) Prosaic Mosaic: A survey of New painting, Bloc Projects Sheffield (2020) Letter Home: Contemporary British Drawing, China Academy Of Art Museums (2019) Blackweir Hollow (solo show) Blyth Gallery, Imperial College London (2018)