Claire Girvin Contemporary Art

Having studied Art and Design at Manchester Metropolitan University and graduated from Nottingham Trent University with a degree in Textile Design I have continued to enjoy painting. Inspiration is taken from architecture and the landscape, and by using earthy colours transforms these perceptions into an abstract form of textures and lines on canvas.

Creating art is - for me - a true give and take between what I attempt to do and what the evolving piece makes me do. Often, when I try to push the art in one direction, it responds differently and makes me take it in another. The art itself surprises me and it directs me into the area it wants to be taken, rather than accepting what I try to make it do. And so I let myself go and the art takes over and the painting evolves.