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Claire
Botterill - Artist |
From an early age I have always created things. I loved drawing
and painting, making camps and especially mud pies
which I loved to decorate with anything I found from
bits of coal to pretty stones and flowers, I would
work in any media I could lay my hands on, beautiful
shaped branches, scraps of wool and fabrics to bits
of rusty tins and things found in the ashes of a
bonfire.
All my life I have been inspired by nature its
landscapes and in particular gardens, the patterns
that exist within an allotment through to the
wildness of neglected gardens where nature has been
allowed to take control again with the forces of
nature depicting the fight for survival of our
cultivated varieties as opposed to the native
species.
The style you see here has developed in recent years from
experimenting with stencils made specifically for
the picture, texturing with natural sponges,
stippling over various vegetation that is used as a
resist and using various objects to apply the paint
as you would a potato print, for thin accurate lines
a credit card gives good control as opposed to a
branch producing a more organic effect. Its all
about finding something appropriate to make the mark
which best suits the character of what I am
representing.
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