Claire Kennedy

Claire Kennedy is a contemporary painter and mixed media artist living in Glasgow. She paints full time and has exhibited in various galleries throughout Scotland. She works primarily in acrylics, exploring layered and textured effects and often incorporating an image of black and white photography as a final printed layer. When not painting, Claire loves walking her dog Farley and taking photographs of her surroundings. It is usually during those walks, whether in city or countryside, that inspiration strikes for the next series of paintings!

 I am drawn to old things, weathered things, often overlooked things, and the colours and patterns which appear there over time. I work with acrylic paints, collage and photography, scratching, scraping and lifting to reveal hidden layers and colours. I enjoy exploring the different textures of paint – brushmarks, glazings and spatters – and pairing this with the starkness of a black and white photographic image. My favourite part of the process isn’t the actual painting, it’s the taking-off of the paint – I do this between each layer with various implements including an old credit card, a rag, a stick or an old quill pen. Although I work with a very considered palette, I’m never 100% sure what lies beneath, and it’s this element of surprise which I find most exciting and which drives me to paint the next picture.’

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