Artist Statement
Claire is a Painter/Curator, working in Suffolk currently exploring still life. Instagram. @friedclaire
Claire makes figurative paintings in oils on canvas or board. The size of my studies vary from 30 to 50cm. Larger paintings are 100 -200 cm
Recently I have loved working with Clare Harward NEAC online working with colour and light in still life oil painting
The subject matter is portrait, landscape, daily objects or sometimes all three - a playful expression that lights up a face, light itself shimmering across a surface, creating pattern, an exciting colour story, the rich brown fields after the rain with white birds flocking to find succulent worms.
I love paint. I learn and discover so much - about By observing intently, I learn about life and the human condition .I visit Galleries to enjoy other artists work and paint techniques and occasionally I make studies.
l share these discoveries with people that are interested, the story of the painting and how it came about.
I am apart of several art groups; IAS and CAS and show regularly.
Life drawing at Asylum Studios enables me to develop a language of mark -making for expressing ideas.
Claire Fried.
