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
MessageCollection: 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.
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