CLAIRE BEATTIE

Claire is based in Duns in the Scottish Borders. Her work is concerned with the Borders landscape and she creates works in oil and other media that document her response to her surroundings. The compositions that emerge, although not always topographical, are based and abstracted from photographs, sketches and memories of the roadsides, hills, moorland and woodland of her environment.

'Creating paintings which are calm, composed and balanced, but which retain a sense of the hand that has made them, is what I hope to do with my work. I love simple and austere composition but on close inspection I want the work to reveal a restrained yet rich palette of colour and tone, echoing the landscape itself, and that its character of painterly surfaces achieved with layers of mark making are apparent and interesting to the eye.'

The work is minimal in style and has a repetitive quality in its preoccupation with these landscape features, emphasised by a restricted palette of tone and colour. Currently, this concern with repetition is emerging through working in series, each piece informing and laying the foundation for the next.  In this way the paintings build to form a body of work which has at its core a specific element of the landscape. 

Claire graduated from Edinburgh College of Art in 1997 and, after some time off to raise her three children, returned to painting full-time. Claire's work is regularly accepted by both the Royal Scottish Academy in Edinburgh and the Royal Glasgow Institute of Fine Arts and she has exhibited in a number of high-profile galleries and institutions over the past few years including The Paisley Art Institute, The Affordable Art Fairs in London and Bristol, The Chelsea Art Fair, The Junction Gallery, Oxfordshire, Cameron Contemporary and The Albany Gallery, Cardiff. She is a member of The Society of Scottish Artists and Visual Arts Scotland. 


CLAIRE BEATTIE

BEFORE THE TWILIGHT

Oil on Canvas

100 x 100cm

CLAIRE BEATTIE

HAZY BASS ROCK

Oil on Canvas

30 x 60cm

CLAIRE BEATTIE

BASS ROCK - STRATUS

Oil on Canvas

35 x 35cm

CLAIRE BEATTIE

CARMINE TREE

Oil on Canvas

35 x 35cm

CLAIRE BEATTIE

OPAQUE MORNING

Oil on Canvas

76 x 76cm

CLAIRE BEATTIE

VIRIDIAN TREE

Oil on Canvas

35 x 35cm

CLAIRE BEATTIE

AUTUMNAL ARBOR

Oil on Canvas

41 x 46cm