28″ x 22″ oil on canvas

Still Life Painting – Progression Video

As we find our place in a new circumstance, I find myself listening to new music, painting, cooking. We are forced to make life simpler for a while. Artists, love a little solitude… its an essential element. The privacy of the studio is a sanctuary, a place to see, develop and challenge oneself to work harder and be better. It is reminding me of how important our home life is. As we spend more time at home, how neglected some areas were.

Enjoy your time and embrace the solitude rather than think of it as isolation.

Thinking of family and friends across the sea and close by. Stay safe … attached a short video from my home to yours. Take time to make your dwelling beautiful, I have been organizing (…. it feels like a have a few years worth to catch up on) De-cluttering is another famous pass time many of us avoid but rehanging some paintings, prompted me to hang this recent painting. This still life white floral work is just a beautiful clean calm painting to greet us, as we enter our living space. Since we wont be out to buy fresh blooms these remind us to appreciate our garden.

From our materialistic society, right now it is only the essentials that matter, food, water, medicine. Our precious health and the state of the planet. Clean sky’s over major cities in the world show us there are lessons.

Prayers to all in the wake of the pandemic. Our health, economy and the fiscal tremors of this virus will be felt throughout the world. We must bloom again!

Be well.

Claire

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If you would like a postcard of this painting please, private message me your name and address and I will send a print of it in the mail when everything calms down, it will be your reminder to bloom again.

claire@cjk-studio.com

A selection of small and medium sized works available.

Bio

Claire Jane Kendrick, was born in Ireland and attended college in England at Manchester Metropolitan University, she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts Honors degree. She worked as a fashion designer in France, Belgium, Sweden and England before relocating to the United States of America in 2006. It was then she returned to painting, full time. A gifted colorist, her paintings are bold, rich, and beautifully textured.
Collectors respond to the contemporary style and the expressive way in which she paints. Pushing boundaries, Claire often starts a painting outdoors and uses a series of washes giving a free-flow effect which she then decides to manipulate or leave. This is a process of constant editing, painting, taking away then reapplying paint and wax, building the image slowly in layers.
“You should paint as you live life; expression should be in your work. See the things of beauty you enjoy and fill your life with that energy.”
A member of Oil Painters of America, Claire’s paintings have been published in American Art Collector Magazine, Florida Design and Veranda Magazine. Attracting a local and international following, Claire is dedicated to pursuing her painting career, and has studied with Contemporary American Painters, notably Cynthia Packard and Anne Packard.

www.cjk-studio.com

Oct 18,19,20 – plein air, demonstrations, see the historic art district captured by local artists.
Painter Claire Kendrick is an exhibiting artist at Plum Pop Up Gallery will be working ‘en plein air”. This is a French term for painting outdoors. Claire has some beautiful coastal paintings exhibiting along side Master Potter Worley Faver in this two person show. Claire will be one of the artists participating in the Oil Painters of America event. Using an outdoor easel – painting a small scene each day – visit in the morning and by the afternoon a painting will have progressed – this is a great opportunity to see Claire and other artists at work, its a great introduction for children/grandchildren to learn about painting outdoors, meet artists and see first hand, their approach a limited palette…etc. Claire will choose subjects close to the gallery at 212c Charlotte Street, visit and her location will be given to those who want to see her at work.

Oil Painters of America – Mission Statement

Dedicated to preserving and promoting excellence in representational art, Oil Painters of America’s primary mission is to advance the cause of traditional, representational fine art by drawing attention to the lasting value of fine drawing, color, composition and the appreciation of light.

Through our national and regional shows, educational programs, scholarships and marketing efforts, OPA has become a leader in the art community and a driving force in the new Renaissance. – oilpaintersofamerica.com

Plum Pop Up Studio – 212c Charlotte Street , St Augustine FL

Two Person Exhibition. Pottery – WORLEY FAVER,

Coastal Paintings – Claire J Kendrick

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What is Plein Air?

Plein air painting is about leaving the four walls of your studio behind and experiencing painting and drawing in the landscape. The practice goes back for centuries but was truly made into an art form by the French Impressionists. Their desire to paint light and its changing, ephemeral qualities, coupled with the creation of transportable paint tubes and the box easel—the precursor to the plein air easels of today—allowed artists the freedom to paint “en plein air,” which is the French expression for “in the open air.” artistsnetwork.com