About...

‘For me, the energy that is born from the sense of a place is what inspires the work, the residual memory of being immersed in the landscape.

Our landscape resonates deep within. I am entranced by the light, the tangled breeze that can whip up from nowhere, sunlight dancing on water, ominous skies - the majesty and melancholy of the wild places.

Claire Howlett

Claire’s work is rooted in the natural world—its beauty, wildness, and serenity. Her practice transforms visceral human emotion into semi-abstract land and seascapes.

The result is an emotional cartography—mapping the terrain of melancholy, longing, joy, grief, contemplation, light and shade and that lies between.

Drawn especially to water and light, the wild Cornish coast, mountaintops, remote and solitary scapes, she works in a non-representational language of paint to merge the raw terrain of human feeling with the shifting atmospheres of the natural world.

Her process is organic, evolving through layered glazes, textures, and the physical act of applying and stripping back paint—hands, brushes, and rags shaping surfaces until a balance is reached between presence and absence.

Claire studied art at Oxford Brookes, before training as a fine art restorer. She has since undertaken courses at St Ives School of Art, the RWA, and the Newlyn School of Art.

Her paintings are held in private and corporate collections in the UK and internationally.

Claires work has been sold via The David Linley Showroom in Belgravia, Hayden Gallery Marlow and is currently available via The Byre Gallery in Millbrook, Cornwall, Amber Gallery, Henley On Thames and Amber Gallery, Stratford Upon Avon.

Her paintings are held in private and corporate collections in the UK and internationally.