Claire Mcalister original art
Biography
Claire McAlister is a Northern Irish painter from Lisburn, County Antrim. She has been living and painting in Newcastle Upon Tyne for four years. Claire graduated from Dundee’s Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design in 2003. She studied Fine Art and Community Art in Belfast, Manchester and San Diego. Claire has been oil painting for ten years, and has been part of many exhibitions in different countries, including Belfast, Shanghai, San Diego and Melbourne.
This current series of work focuses on the human form and decorative fabrics. Each figurative study has been strategically composed to accentuate light on the figure within the frame. Claire wants to create contrast between decorative detail on the clothing with a soft background. It is not the artist’s intention to focus on the figure’s character or facial expression; more so the environment, moment and light in which the figure is placed.
The fabric paintings are intentionally focusing on pattern, decoration and colour, all being influenced by composition, light and depth.
Arts grant awarded from Lisburn Arts Advisory Committee.
Medium
- Oil(10)
Popular works
Shieldfield Flat 2007 (detail)
High Heaton Flat 2009 (detail)
Whitley Bay 2007 (detail)
New York 2008 (detail)
Newcastle 2009 (detail)
At Home, Lisburn 2006 (detail)
Fabrics I (detail)
Fabrics II (detail)
Fabrics III (detail)
St James Village 2008 (detail)