Spindrift Blessings

About

Clare Wilson completed this new work in response to her residency at Aberystwyth Arts Centre throughout the Winter months. Her paintings evolve out of a process of layering, removing, reworking and pushing paint to find an inevitable form. The initial chaos of poured paint and expressive brushmarks that dominate the early stages of the work are simplified and the uncomfortable and disjointed shapes are dissolved - at least partly, to create stillness. It is a slow process and the results remain indeterminate as the multi layering of muted tones reveal traces and imprints of the origins of the paintings, often submerged in a veiled light. She is not concerned with the monumental or grand but in the detail of a moment, curious shadows, abstract movements, depths and recessions, textures, memories and allowing the unknown to resurface. Boundaries and borders intrigue her, and how chance encounters can interrupt and allow the fragile and unfamiliar to emerge. Although these paintings are not about place, subtle shifts of tone and a restricted palette may refer to the diffused light and intervals of landscape and it's potential as a space of transition and transformation.