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Clare Blatchford-Hanna

Chichester, West Sussex

My work considers memory as part real and part imagined, we use this to navigate and gain a sense of place and understanding of our enviroment

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Collection: Tipping Point

This collection traces the transformation of a workshop site into a garden, a shift from labour and demolition towards ecology and renewal. Along the way, overlooked presences became central: scaffolding casting improbable silhouettes, wheelbarrows stacked and repurposed, bags of rubble accumulating like temporary monuments. Ordinary tools, fleeting in their utility, seemed to hold both memory and possibility.

The paintings are not depictions but layered impressions. Transparent washes, scaffold-like grids, and gestural sweeps mark out a place in flux, caught between dismantling and reimagining. The palette moves from the bright, acidic tones of spring growth pressing against residue, to the darker registers of night, when forms dissolve into shadow.

Together, the works map a threshold, between industry and nature, memory and renewal, function and imagination. They dwell in the tension of a tipping point: the fragile moment when a site becomes something else.
Traces of Transition PT1-I (series) by Clare Blatchford-Hanna
  • Traces of Transition PT1-I (series)
Acrylic and mixed media on paper
17 x 12.5 cm
Traces of Transition PT1-II (series) by Clare Blatchford-Hanna
  • Traces of Transition PT1-II (series)
Acrylic and mixed media on paper
17 x 12.5 cm
Traces of Transition PT1-III (series) by Clare Blatchford-Hanna
  • Traces of Transition PT1-III (series)
Acrylic and mixed media on paper
17 x 12.5 cm
Traces of Transition PT1-IV (series) by Clare Blatchford-Hanna
  • Traces of Transition PT1-IV (series)
Acrylic and mixed media on paper
17 x 12.5 cm
Traces of Transition PT2-I (series) by Clare Blatchford-Hanna
  • Traces of Transition PT2-I (series)
Acrylic and mixed media on paper mounted on wooden cradle panel
20 x 15 cm
Traces of Transition PT2-II (series) by Clare Blatchford-Hanna
  • Traces of Transition PT2-II (series)
Acrylic and mixed media on paper mounted on wooden cradle panel
20 x 15 cm
Traces of Transition PT2-III (series) by Clare Blatchford-Hanna
  • Traces of Transition PT2-III (series)
Acrylic and mixed media on paper mounted on wooden cradle panel
20 x 15 cm
Traces of Transition PT2-IV (series) by Clare Blatchford-Hanna
  • Traces of Transition PT2-IV (series)
Acrylic and mixed media on paper mounted on wooden cradle panel
20 x 15 cm
Everything Looks Different At Night I by Clare Blatchford-Hanna
  • Everything Looks Different At Night I
Oil On Canvas
17.5 x 13 cm
Everything Looks Different At Night II by Clare Blatchford-Hanna
  • Everything Looks Different At Night II
Oil On Canvas
17.5 x 13 cm
Night Evolution III by Clare Blatchford-Hanna
  • Night Evolution III
Oil and acrylic on paper
18 x 12.5 cm
Night Evolution II by Clare Blatchford-Hanna
  • Night Evolution II
Oil and acrylic on paper
18 x 12.5 cm
Night Evolution I by Clare Blatchford-Hanna
  • Night Evolution I
Oil and acrylic on paper
18 x 12.5 cm
Night Evolution IV by Clare Blatchford-Hanna
  • Night Evolution IV
18 x 12.5 cm
 

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