Norfolk based artist Claire Cansick paints landscapes utilising colour as an emotive tool. Her imposed and imagined colour casts are applied to familiar or poignant places taking them into a new realm, yet they retain equilibrium and tonal balance. Influenced by Joseph Albers’ Interaction of Colour she uses a limited palette of a maximum of four colours using them in varying mixes and proportions across the canvas. Starting with her own photos or drawings as source material which she discards at some point, letting what’s happening on the surface dictate the finished result.Her observations of nature are a running theme in her work, sometimes including figures, grounding the experience, scale and sense of time. ‘I want to deeply connect, it is the driving force behind my work. Losing myself in the process is simultaneously exhilarating and exhausting but the urge is never satisfied. I draw on early 20th century painting such as Munch and Vallotton as well as contemporary heroes like Billy Childish’.
