CLAIRE COOPER WALSH
Training:
1985-1986 - Art Foundation Course at Bournville School of Art
1986-1989 - BA hons in Fine Art at Bath Academy of Art
Solo Shows:
Glasgow University
Queens Hall, Edinburgh
The Filmhouse, Edinburgh
Harding House Gallery, Lincoln
Cafe Fresh, Dunfermline
Pillars of Hercules Organic Cafe, Fife
Venue Xpresso, Alcester
Mixed Shows:
Affordable Art Fair, London Art Room 59, Dunfermline
The Art Bay, Stoke-on Trent Aspect Prize, Paisley
Atholl Gallery, Perthshire Ayrshire Open Art Exhibition
Byre Theatre, St Andrews Carby Art Gallery, Aberdeen
Ceres Gallery, Fife Flat Cat Gallery, The Borders
Frames Gallery, Perth Gold Gallery, Edinburgh
Green Gallery, Perthshire GR Gallery, Dunbar
Hanover Fine Arts, Edinburgh Joem Gallery, Kent
Kate Modern, Worcestershire Leith Gallery, Edinburgh
Little Gallery, Fife Made in Scotland, Inverness
Malvern Theatre Obsidian Art, Buckinghamshire
Panik Gallery, Perthshire Shorelines Studio, Fife
Strathearn Gallery, Perthshire Wildwood Gallery, Suffolk
I lived and worked in Scotland for 18 years, and moved to Worcestershire in 2010. Over those years, I worked in a variety of media including textiles and printmaking. Over the last 10 years I have worked in mixed media, and am also learning the crafts of weaving and feltmaking.I have undertaken various private painting commissions and also a textiles commission for the Archdiocese of Edinburgh, to produce a Lourdes pilgimage banner.
I have always been inspired by the textures, colours and shapes found in nature, and over the years my work has become more abstract to reflect my fascination with colour and how it works with different textures and materials. My work is now very richly layered and harks back, in many ways, to the textiles work I produced some years ago. I am very much influenced by the work of Hundertwasser and Klimt, to name but a few.