Claire Rollinson

Now I am living in Taplow Court, Berkshire. I have moved house seven times and it takes a while to get to know and feel some sort of familiarity and a little ease in a new place. One thing that helps is getting to know the immediate environment. The most direct approach I think is some sort of gardening – putting my hands directly in the earth. Careful observation of the world around me too – the plants that happily grow in this environment, the wind direction, where the sun rises and sets and the lights it casts, and the shadows, the texture of the soil, the various insects, seeing a grass snake in my small garden – the first I’ve ever seen. Then I have been painting which brings up the big question – how can I make a response to this place, how can I somehow join in with this astonishing on going creation true to myself. It involves wrestling – with myself and with the materials – too wet, too dry, too slippery, too red, too static – actually at times it is completely out of control – but if instead of abandoning the whole thing, if I can stay in there, accepting the chaos and the uncomfortable unknown and the potential for failure, then some thing surprising and new can emerge, - like a butterfly…

I work with a variety of ma...

1995 BA Hons Fine Art, Falmouth College of Art and Design

1992 Art Foundation, Plymouth College of Art and Design


Selected Solo Exhibitions
2018 “Paintings to Dance to”. The Curve, Slough and Sarah's place,
Taplow
2010 Graffan Gallery, Castle Espie
2009 Mullan gallery Belfast
2008 Ards Art Centre, Newtownards, County Down
2007 Flower Field Art Centre Portstewart, Co Antrim
2006 Art in the Loft, Portaferry, County Down
2005 Ards Art Centre, Newtownards, County Down
2000 Thelma Hulbert Gallery, Honiton, Devon
1999 Chapel Gallery, Saltram, Plymouth
1999 Plymouth College of Art and Design
1998 Plymouth School of Architecture
1997 Plymouth College of Art and Design
Selected Group Exhibitions
2015, 2017, 2019 Ikeda New Century hall, Taplow Court
Berkshire
2014 – 2019 Buckinghamshire Art Society biannual
exhibitions
2016, 2018, 2019 Wooburn Festival. Bucks.
2013 Like, don’t Like, the Art House Pavilion, Towerhamlets
2013Transforming ConZlict, INCH, Taplow Court, Berks
2011 Christmas Exhibition, The engine Room Belfast
2010 Summer Show, the Engine Room, Belfast
2009 Christmas Exhibition, The engine Room Belfast
2009 ‘Fusions’ Ards Art Centre, County Down
2008 Finegans, Kirkubbin, County Down
2008 Christmas Exhibition,The Engine Room, Belfast
2008 The Graphic Show, The Engine Room Gallery, Belfast
2008 The Engine Room Galle...