Oxmarket are delighted to welcome Clare Boyd-Wallis to the John Rank Gallery for a solo exhibition. Originally Clare worked in water colour and mixed media but was encouraged to switch to Oils by a fellow painter Paul Treasure.

Clare loves the ability Oils give her to continue to move around and work with the paint over a number of days, the layers of paint help to build depth and texture and she combines brushes and palette knives for her work.

Clare’s Influences have been the Landscape Artist Hester Berry and Kurt Jackson, she admires their ability to take the essence of a scene and distil it to convey drama and atmosphere.

Clare has always loved being outside and particularly the weather, trees and how being within the landscape makes her feel. Clare’s work is her response to it.  She said ‘A feeling of our insignificance with in the Landscape. A sense of our being part of an enormous space where we are also able to discover places of enclosure and calmness. In the face of nature our anxieties disappear and we are aware of our own insignificance within the natural world. A sense of time turning with the seasons without any heed to our human preoccupations’.

Clare doesn’t work outside but instead prefers to experience a place, take photos and memorize scenes. This means that she does not end up making a photo realist piece but instead back in her studio combines many elements to produce a painting.

Clare wants the viewer to want to be drawn in to her paintings and share her response to it.