​My practice uses material as a process in response to looking, experiencing and experimenting with landscape. I am interested in what happens when observation moves beyond representation, and when the physical behaviour of the medium becomes part of the way a landscape is experienced, remembered or imagined.
 Painting is central to my practice, but I work with a range of materials in response to my subject matter.

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Living in North Cornwall, I encounter the landscape through movement as well as observation. As a runner, I experience the Cornish lanes, hedgerows and holloways at speed and through repeated journeys, while painting allows me to slow down, revisit and transform those experiences. 

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​I am interested in landscape as something unstable rather than fixed — something encountered physically, remembered subjectively and increasingly altered by environmental change. I use experimental painting processes to allow this instability to enter the making itself, balancing control with chance and representation with abstraction. The paintings are therefore not intended simply to depict landscape, but to explore what landscape might become when paint is allowed to participate in the process of seeing, remembering and imagining it.

 

 

 

​Claire Winfield 2026

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