Clare Wilson

Artist, Clare Wilson teaches our 4-day Abstract Landscape in Oils short course. Clare is co-leading our Studio Practice programme and is one of the artists who exhibits in our annual fundraiser. 

Clare Wilson’s work investigates ways in which the process and materiality of painting relate to the experience of landscape and the tension between real and imagined spaces. Tonal shifts and a restricted palette refer 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 a place of at least some resolve but 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 North-East coast - uncovering fragments that find form in the painting process and investigating the ways that landscape can hold memory.

Clare has built up an incredible knowledge base through her own practice and many years demonstrating materials for the renowned artists’ materials supplier A P Fitzpatrick in East London. Clare brings to the course her extensive teaching experience, skills gained through a successful career as a landscape painter and a strong knowledge of oil paint, surfaces and studio practice.