Claire Darcy

Joined Artfinder: July 2019

Artworks for sale: 7

United Kingdom

About Claire Darcy

 
 
  • Biography
    Claire Darcy is an exhibited contemporary landscape artist who resides close to the Lake District National Park. It is this location, with its weather-beaten mountains and valleys, together with those mountains of Western Scotland, that she frequently depicts in their absolute or semi-abstract form. Equally, her composition reflects the dramatic Coastline of Northern England. Landscapes usually evolve over several months where they are built up in multiple layers of acrylic paint to produce impasto - deep uneven texture that is both tangible and tactile. Photographs taken during field trips are invaluable documentary sources, though Claire also works en plein air. 

    Claire says, “I'm drawn towards my immediate natural world of the Lakeland Fells and want to paint them, to document them, as they are now, in situ. When we think of climate change and the global climate emergency, we seem to think that the Lake District is somehow untouched and protected. Yet, casual observation reveals considerable damage, erosion and pollution. I want to capture the beauty now before another bit of our immediate world is lost.”
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    Event: Green Door Affordable Art

    Dates: 15 Nov 2019 - 17 Nov 2019

    Venue: Staveley Roundhouse, Staveley Cumbria

    Green Door, Cumbria’s leading art collective host an affordable art weekend each year through which I both exhibited and sold art in 2019.

    Event: Kaleidoscope a Winter Exhibition

    Dates: 5 Nov 2019 - 12 Jan 2020

    Venue: Upfront, Unthank, Penrith

    I had two acrylic landscape paintings selected for exhibition alongside other for Green Door Artists.

    Event: Untamed

    Dates: 1 Aug 2019 - 31 Aug 2019

    Venue: The Lookout Cafe, Seaham County Durham

    Darcy is exhibiting 12 original abstract and semi-abstract seascapes and landscapes at the Lookout Cafe, overlooking the port of Seaham, and the North Sea.

    The exhibition is seminal for Darcy, for it is being hosted in the coastal town of her childhood; one which still deeply influences her paintings.

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Like me on Facebook

Follow me on Twitter

Follow me on Pinterest

Follow me on Instagram

Visit my website

There are no upcoming events

Show previous events Hide previous events

Previous events

Event: Green Door Affordable Art

Dates: 15 Nov 2019 - 17 Nov 2019

Venue: Staveley Roundhouse, Staveley Cumbria

Green Door, Cumbria’s leading art collective host an affordable art weekend each year through which I both exhibited and sold art in 2019.

Event: Kaleidoscope a Winter Exhibition

Dates: 5 Nov 2019 - 12 Jan 2020

Venue: Upfront, Unthank, Penrith

I had two acrylic landscape paintings selected for exhibition alongside other for Green Door Artists.

Event: Untamed

Dates: 1 Aug 2019 - 31 Aug 2019

Venue: The Lookout Cafe, Seaham County Durham

Darcy is exhibiting 12 original abstract and semi-abstract seascapes and landscapes at the Lookout Cafe, overlooking the port of Seaham, and the North Sea.

The exhibition is seminal for Darcy, for it is being hosted in the coastal town of her childhood; one which still deeply influences her paintings.

 

Biography

Claire Darcy is an exhibited contemporary landscape artist who resides close to the Lake District National Park. It is this location, with its weather-beaten mountains and valleys, together with those mountains of Western Scotland, that she frequently depicts in their absolute or semi-abstract form. Equally, her composition reflects the dramatic Coastline of Northern England. Landscapes usually evolve over several months where they are built up in multiple layers of acrylic paint to produce impasto - deep uneven texture that is both tangible and tactile. Photographs taken during field trips are invaluable documentary sources, though Claire also works en plein air. 

Claire says, “I'm drawn towards my immediate natural world of the Lakeland Fells and want to paint them, to document them, as they are now, in situ. When we think of climate change and the global climate emergency, we seem to think that the Lake District is somehow untouched and protected. Yet, casual observation reveals considerable damage, erosion and pollution. I want to capture the beauty now before another bit of our immediate world is lost.”
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