Claire Burke
Claire’s work has travelled to New York for Art New York 2003 and received acclaim at Art 2003 and 2004 in London.
You may be familiar with Claire’s small panel work which she has been quietly developing alongside her Oil Paintings for the last 4 years. Full Circle Art Consultants have always been very successful with these diminutive pieces, placing them in groups of up to 18 in both domestic and corporate projects.
Claire constructs these panels with a variety of materials including Copper and Aluminium leaf, gilding wax, paste, acrylic paint, graphite powder and pure dry pigments. The works are an exploration in texture and material, particularly the boundaries between the surfaces. As with all of Claire Burke's work the process and its visibility through the layers of applied material comprise a large part of the content. Her simple individual panels combine to form an aesthetic dialogue that refers to both natural and manmade surfaces.
These new works have a deceptively simple appearance, they have been described as ‘elegant’ and ‘beautiful’, yet they still retain a subtlety and discretion that has always been fundamental to Claire’s work.
Claire Burke recently produced work for Nicky Haslam for a Russian project.
12ct yellow gold 2
12ct yellow gold 50x30
50x30 12ct yellow gold and 6ct white gold
50x30 23ct gold
80x60 5
80x60 9
80x60 london art magenta
120x90 1
Gwydh Adamantys 1
prussian blue 120x90
35x25 1
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35x25 2
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35x25 3
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Pressure has been mounting for some years now for Claire to advance the development of these pieces into larger works. At Last Claire has decided to evolve the pieces on a considerably larger scale of her own accord, much to the delight of her agents and buyers alike. The range now spans 35cm x 25cm through to 120cm x 90cm.
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35x25 5
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35x25 6
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The first public exposure these new works had was the Affordable Art Fair in Oct 2008, under Claire’s other company, the Art Agency ‘Cobalt Fine Arts’. Claire has also recently shown work at The Affordable Art Fair in Amsterdam where she sold the majority of her pieces with Maria Van Maastrict Fine Art.
35x25 7
(35x25cm)
35x25 8
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35x25 9
(35x25cm)
After the best London Affordable Art Fair in Claire’s exhibition history Claire’s next projects include a private commission for Laren Design Consultants, Alan Klukow’s Christmas Exhibition, closely followed by London Art – London’s oldest and most prestigious Art Fair. Later in the year she will also show her new works at Art NY with her new agency – the renowned Cynthia Corbett gallery.
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(60x40cm)
60x40 2
(60x40cm)
60x40 3
(60x40cm)
The pieces are now being developed in real silver as well as the schlag metal leaf she has previously used.
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(60x40cm)
60x40 5
(60x40cm)