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.