Deluge at Twilight by Claire Wiltsher

Oil on canvas on a 3.5cm depth stretcher.

Claire Wiltsher was born in Wales and studied at both Lancashire and Northumbria Universities.

In 2010, she received the ‘Rosemary and Co’ Society of Women Artists annual award. She was also selected for the 2010 Royal Society of Marine Artists exhibition at the Mall Galleries.

Claire was also the winner, in 2018, of the Artist and Illustrator First Prize ahead of 2400 competitors.

Her oil and mixed media canvases combine layers of paint with fragments of collage. She scratches through sections of the painting to allow colours from underneath to emerge.

She said, “I want to create evocative paintings of land and sea that show a sense of place; different weather conditions are key elements”.

Claire uses brushes and different size palette knives to build up layers and create depth.

She also flicks or carefully throws paint onto selected areas of her work. Evidence of this can be found all over her studio floor!