Claudia Clare
Wootton, Drifting Snow, 2018
h:50 cm x w:30 cm
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This pot is from the 'Wootton' series. It relates to the family home where the artist grew up and is an amalgamation of memories of a childhood in rural Oxfordshire....
This pot is from the 'Wootton' series. It relates to the family home where the artist grew up and is an amalgamation of memories of a childhood in rural Oxfordshire. The gate seen at the bottom of the work is the gate at the end of the garden leading out into the meadows beyond. Clare is a great observer of the world around her and known for her work that observes contemporary life. In many ways she is working in the same tradition as the Impressionist painters of the late 19th Century, observing the world around her - the landscapes of both rural and urban life, and the lives of those who inhabit these spaces.
Grandpa to my dad: ‘What are you going to call it Bleak House or Wuthering Heights?’ Pastoral lowlands on the edge of the Cotswolds it may have been but it certainly ‘wuthered’ in Winter. Snow fell in many different ways but drifting snow was a common feature. On this pot, the valley shows only a light covering, with the subtle colouring of winter grasses visible but, with the wind in the right direction, drifting snow could easily fill and gulley and block a window or door.
Grandpa to my dad: ‘What are you going to call it Bleak House or Wuthering Heights?’ Pastoral lowlands on the edge of the Cotswolds it may have been but it certainly ‘wuthered’ in Winter. Snow fell in many different ways but drifting snow was a common feature. On this pot, the valley shows only a light covering, with the subtle colouring of winter grasses visible but, with the wind in the right direction, drifting snow could easily fill and gulley and block a window or door.