BA Hons (Painting), Manchester Metropolitan University.

'Clare' s paintings and photographs have an ethereal quality, in the cityscapes there is a sense of something unspoken, a fleeting quality that invites the viewer to reflect on the fabric of reality. Her ability to perceive these transitory moments, which enhance the unspoken, mysterious quality in her work, is very special.'

Benjamin Storch

Clare Maynard

I represent landscapes in my painting which have an atmosphere of freedom and openness through the subject matter of travel and sometimes in a conceptual way. The paintings have clear connections with environment as they are often views of places and times which are still in existence and perhaps overlooked in the speed of modern society. Most of the paintings try to capture these reflective moments in life within an urban or rural setting.

The material gathered for my work is experiential, this is what I record in my paintings along the way. Sometimes it can be an obscure object in an urban setting which captures my eye and at other times the way the light is falling on a landscape or through a window. I have a growing interest in social landscapes and environment and there are usually very personal subject orientated reasons for the occasional journeys which I take to experience a place, it is later in the studio that experimentation with composition occurs and the production of the final paintings, I usually know exactly what I want to achieve as a project based artist, the research aspect of the project is very exciting and a priority to me.

I am influenced by film and photography with regard to technique and use of colour. Sometimes I paint the intermediate visual experience of transition or travel which is recorded in photographic form and is experimental- as the collection of photographs reflect

The artists work can also be found on the following websites:
» AxisWeb - the online resource for contemporary art

Press Releases:
» Wales Arts International
» Arts Council of Wales

art@claremaynard.co.uk

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