Category:Oil Painting

Large Contemporary Artwork | Home Installation

Painting by artist Claire J Kendrick shown hanging in a beautifully designed home in South Florida, USA. For inquiries contact Gardner Colby Gallery, Naples. FL Aqua Horizontal | 36×48 | Private Home Installation Photo

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New Books from CJK-Studio

New Art Books from each of my series available through Blurb – Hardback or Softback. Landscape Series Figure Series Still Life Series Seascape Series

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Hurricane Matthew – We survived and all will be well.

We survived the wrath of Hurricane Matthew. We have some shingles missing, had branches down and a yard to clean up but we were extremely lucky and feel more than a little blessed after the Hurricane. Many others were not so fortunate. Our prayers and support are with them as they rebuild. Thank you to all those that emailed and texted to check on us and our home and studio. I am also thankful that gallery’s who represent my paintings,

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Claire J Kendrick’s Solo Exhibit at the STAAA, Marguerita Phillips North Gallery

View my solo exhibition, in the Marguerita Phillips North Gallery. OPENING NIGHT FRIDAY 4th NOVEMBER 6.30 -8.30 PM Selected through the Provincetown Community Compact I created a body of work in one of the primitive Dune Shacks situated along the far-flung coastal region of Cape Cod’s National Seashore, Massachusetts. The Dune Shacks of Peaked Hill Bars Historic District have lodged famous artists and authors who have sought a place of seclusion in which to work. The main gallery and exhibiting

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New Paintings & Summer is ablaze with color on the Marsh

New Paintings These mixed media painting’s called “Surrounding Me” & “Loving you” are both textural and made from layers of oil paint and oil pastel drawing and painting layering and overlapping.They can be sold together as a diptych or separately. This is a striking large scale contemporary painting, the inspiration for this marsh scene was from a smaller painting I did some time ago called “Marsh in Fall”. The challenge of course is to have a piece read on a

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Artist Residency Blog (Part 4/4) – Awarded through the Provincetown Community Compact

An Artist Residency – Artist & Painter Claire J. Kendrick Have you always wanted to participate in an artist residency? Plan your own ‘art trip’ have uninterrupted time, work and be inspired by a new environment? Join me as I share my experience of an Artist Residency at the C-Scape Dune Shack on the Cape Cod National Seashore.  This was a rustic and basic living experience but use the advice to plan your art-inspired residence. Claire J Kendrick, “A residency

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Artist Residency (Part 3/4) – Awarded through the Provincetown Community Compact

Artist Residency (Video 3) C-scape Dune Dwellers This place has a mystical baroness. One has to live in, to experience it. I am honored to join a long list of talented artistic people whose creative journeys have brought them here. I feel I have graduated into a special tribe of Dune Dwellers by staying in one of the historic Dune Shack’s. The solitude struck me, and I worked prolifically to fill the void. My wish coming here was to have

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Artist Residency (Part 2/4) – Awarded through the Provincetown Community Compact

“For a small group of intrepid adventurers, summer means living in a minimalist shack on the dunes at the tip of Cape Cod. For years the diminutive abodes have attracted artist, writers and naturalists longing to escape the hubbub of the hectic world of their day-to-day lives.” – Josephine Breen Del Deo, The Watch at Peaked Hill Outer Cape Cod Dune Shack Life 1953- 2003. Artist Residency (Video 2)     Claire J. Kendrick was awarded through the Provincetown Community

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Artist Residency (Part 1/4) – Awarded through the Provincetown Community Compact

Claire J. Kendrick has been awarded through the Provincetown Community Compact, a residency in the Peaked Hill Bars National Register Historic District, MA. Kendrick’s residency in Provincetown will be primitive only allowing for basic essentials in an effort to preserve and enhance the natural beauty of the Cape reflected in her paintings. She will be residing in one of the 19 well-known Dune Shacks; where there is no electricity or indoor plumbing, no refrigerator and little connection with the outside

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The East Coast Draw for Artist C. J. Kendrick – Retracing the steps of artists from the early 1900’s visiting two of the east coast’s artist colonies.

Cape Cod, Massachusetts is a popular summer retreat where locals and visitors marvel at the natural breathtaking scenery of the dunes and beaches. When on vacation on the Cape most enjoy luxurious accommodations; however, artist Claire Kendrick will be experiencing the preserved natural landscape in a much less lavish but connected way. Kendrick has been awarded through the Provincetown Community Compact, an opportunity artists around the world dream of, a residency in the Peaked Hill Bars National Register Historic District.

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