UNDER AFRICAN SKIES
Zebra
watercolour 10 X 11.5cm £380
£38 per month with OWN ART
Cactus And Weaver Bird
watercolour and ink 9.5 X 10cm £380
£38 per month with OWN ART
Sunbird, Kenya
watercolour 9.5 X 10cm £380
£38 per month with OWN ART
Marico Sunbirds
watercolour 14 X 15cm £380
£38 per month with OWN ART
African Hoopoe
watercolour 20 X 22cm £500
£50 per month with OWN ART
Woodland Nectar
watercolour 17.5 X 19.5cm £560
£56 per month with OWN ART
Black-Headed Weaver
watercolour 18 X 20cm £560
£56 per month with OWN ART
Lilac Breasted Roller I
watercolour 17.5 X 21cm £580
£58 per month with OWN ART
Lilac Breasted Roller II
watercolour 17.5 X 21cm £580
£58 per month with OWN ART
As Night Falls
watercolour 23 X 25cm £600
£60 per month with OWN ART
Scent Trail
watercolour 20 X 22cm £600
£60 per month with OWN ART
Spotted
watercolour 22 X 25cm £600
£60 per month with OWN ART
Bush Rhino
watercolour 23 X 26cm £600
£60 per month with OWN ART
Savannah Heat
watercolour 22 X 25 £600
£60 per month with OWN ART
Sunbird I
watercolour and gold leaf 32 X 32cm £800
£80 per month with OWN ART
White-throated Bee-eater
watercolour 49 X 30cm £800
£80 per month with OWN ART
Bee-eaters' Perch
watercolour 33 x 34cm £800
£80 per month with OWN ART
Sunbird II
watercolour and gold leaf 34 X 36cm £860
£86 per month with OWN ART
Cheetah
watercolour 28 X 30cm £880
£88 per month with OWN ART
Leopard
watercolour 27.5 X 35.5cm £900
£90 per month with OWN ART
Drylands, Ol Pejeta
watercolour 39 X 73cm £1200
£120 per month with OWN ART
Impala Herd
watercolour 48 X 62cm £1200
£120 per month with OWN ART
Low Flight, Oystercatchers
watercolour 51 X 70cm £2000
£200 per month with OWN ART
Fishing Tern, Lake Naivasha
watercolour 57 X 69cm £2000
£200 per month with OWN ART
Paradise Flycatchers
watercolour, ink and acrylic
53 X 73cm £2000
£200 per month with OWN ART
Avocet, Lake Naivasha
watercolour 55 X 72cm £2000
£200 per month with OWN ART
Glide, Terns Over Lake Naivasha
watercolour 58 X 78cm £2500
£500 deposit & £200 per month with
OWN ART
Stilts, Lake Naivasha Shallows
watercolour 60 X 78cm £2500
£500 deposit & £200 per month with
OWN ART
Samburu Kingfishers
watercolour 62 X 76cm £2500
£500 deposit & £200 per month with
OWN ART
Great Rift Valley Flamingoes
watercolour 58 X 108cm £4500
Claire was born in Ayr and graduated from Glasgow School of Art in the early 1990s. In 2005 she was elected member of RSW (Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour).
With a passion for the natural world - birds, wildlife and landscapes, Claire’s painting has taken her around the world - Antarctica, Outback Australia, St Kilda, India, the Galápagos Islands - all places where, in extreme environments, survival is difficult and the balance of life is delicate.
In 2009 she visited several of Kenya’s National Parks, her first time in Africa.
From the source material gathered, memories are digested, ideas develop and the paintings, predominantly in watercolour, are realised. Working intuitively her work is immediate. The energy of movement is mirrored in the action to paint it and to strive for a painting to look as effortless as flight is a constant challenge.
Claire lives and works in Perth
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2010 ‘Under African Skies- New Paintings’ Queen’s Gallery, Dundee
2009 ‘Worn Tracks, New Marks- Kenya’ Strathearn Gallery
2008 ‘Galapagos’ Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh
2007 ‘St Kilda’ Plockton Gallery
2006 Peter Potter, Haddington
2005 ‘Antarctica’, Strathearn Gallery, Crieff
2004 Maclaurin Art Gallery, Ayr
2003 Green Gallery, Aberfoyle
2000 ‘Outback and Beyond’ Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh
1999,’01 Strathearn Gallery, Crieff
1999 Peter Potter, Haddington
1998 Edinburgh Zoo
1997 University of York
1997 Cross Keys Gallery, Perth
1997 Maclaurin Art Gallery, Ayr
Selected Group Exhibitions
2010, ’00,’98, Tolquhon Gallery, Aberdeenshire
2006-‘10 Wade Gallery, Elie
1996-‘10 Frames Gallery, Perth
1998-‘10 Fotheringham Gallery, Bridge of Allan
2007 Qi Baishi International Festival, Xiangtan, Hunan Province, China
2006 Kaire-Desire Gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania
2006 Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh
2006, 05, 04 Society of Wildlife Artists, Mall Galleries, London
2005 RSPB, Gymnasium, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh
2005- Castle Gallery, Bute
2004 Thomas Henry, Fine Art, Nantucket, USA
2004 Galerie Dauphin, Singapore
2003 Green Gallery, Munich
2003 Wren Gallery, Oxford
2003- Plockton Gallery, West Highlands
2000 Panter and Hall, London
1998 Flying Colours Gallery, London
1996 New Faces, Perth Museum and Art Gallery
1995 Aberdeen Hospital
1992 ‘Contain’, Sydney Australia
1991 The Old Museum, Belfast
Art Fairs
1998- Art in the Square, Glasgow
Affordable Art Fair, London
Affordable Art Fair, New York
Works on Paper, London
Public Collections
Perth Museum and Art Gallery, Perth and Kinross Council
Royal Scottish Geographical Society
Invited Artist
2004 Dunkeld Cathedral Annual Exhibition
2004 Perthshire Art Association, Perth Museum and Art Gallery
Awards/ Competitions
2010 Riverside Gallery Award, RSW
2006 Perth and Kinross Artists’ Award
2002 Windsor and Newton, RSW
2002 Exhibitor at Singer and
1996 Arches Winter Painting Competition (wildlife)
Residencies
1998 The Royal Zoological Society, Edinburgh
Teaching
1998 Summer School, Edinburgh College of Art
99-08 Dollar Summer School
Television
2002 Landward, BBC: Art and Nature
1998 Ex-s BBC Scotland ‘The Zoo’ - documentary of the artist-in-residence programme at Edinburgh Zoo
Study Visits
2010 National Parks of India
2009 National Parks of Kenya
2008 The Galápagos Islands
2007 Cultural Exchange and Exhibition, Xiangtan, Hunan, China
2007 St Kitts, Nevis
2006 Australian Outback
2005, 06, 07 St Kilda, Scotland
2005 Grenada, Tobago
2004 Antarctica and South Georgia
2003 Barbados, Dominica, Trinidad
2002 Portugal
2002 Cuba
2002 Mexico: migration of the Monarch Butterfly
2001 Letterewe Estate, Wester Ross: Commissioned paintings ‘A Highland Deer Herd and Its Habitat’ pbl Red Lion Press, London
2001 Isle of May, Scotland
2000 Australia, Eastern and Central regions