Wide Open

Title: “Wide Open” 48 x 48 inches | Oil on Canvas | Original SOLD | Giclee Print on Archival Canvas Available 48×48

In Wide Open, Claire Kendrick captures the expressive potential of Florida’s marshlands—landscapes rich in subtle shifts and surprising color. Through deliberate layering and confident application of paint, Kendrick creates visual vibrations that echo the energy of the natural world. The surface hums with motion: greens give way to ochres, soft blues to warm silvers, revealing a spectrum far more complex than initially meets the eye.

The low horizon line opens the composition to sky, giving space for breath and light. Clouds drift upward in a quiet gesture of release, while the marsh below pulses with movement and life. This is a work about openness—about arrival and acceptance.

For Kendrick, this painting is a kind of homecoming. There is a physicality to the gesture, a sense of standing still with open arms and taking in the vastness before you. Wide Open is more than a view—it’s an invitation to feel a place, to recognize belonging not just as location, but as a deeply personal and emotional state.

This painting part of a larger series called “Salt of the Earth, Tides of the Soul”. The series reflects on migration, cultural identity and the American Landscape.