Claire West

Claire is a painter and printmaker based in Beverley, West Yorkshire and works from her studio Gallery at Salt. She’s a painter, who paints because it makes her happy and she hope’s that it does the same for the viewer. She has a strong belief in the power of colour therapy in uplifting the spirit.

She love’s colour and enjoy’s exploring its contrasts and its vibrant and intense nature. In working with colour.

She like’s using colours that are often believed to not work together, in doing this she  hope’s to break down the boundaries of what we should do and explore the freedom that is so often lost in art, when we are no longer children.  

She usually work’s on canvas in acrylic and inks, she produce’s textured work through layers of paint and random dripping of inks. As the painting develops she will discover happy accidents which have evolved and help to form the finished painting, often dictating where detail will happen. 

Her work has also featured on television programmes such as  I.T. Crowd, Life of Riley and Eastenders.