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StephenH-C @stephenh-c.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

The Sea, The Sea a new anthology of writing about the coast of Norfolk and Suffolk from www.waterlandbooks.co.uk , includes work by Henry Skipper, seen here in a rare photograph

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Claire Cansick @clairecansickart.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Finished this recently, it is going to Kings Lynn in May to Woolmarket House for a show curated by Contemporary & Country, also known as ‘the Pauls.’ I enjoy the gradient a lot.

Wave painted over two panels, with inverted colour palette. Spot the skeleton

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Claire Cansick @clairecansickart.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Always making. If I’m not making I’m thinking about making. Yes, even when I’m talking to you. It’s all lined up neat and pretty on my website, should you want a trawl.

Painting of a violet wave, finished today

Multicoloured wave with many skeletons swirling within

Oil painting of a wave, with a face within

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Claire Cansick @clairecansickart.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

The Realm Between 45.5 x 61cm Oil on wood 2025

Hump of an impending wave with serpents beneath its surface

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Claire Cansick @clairecansickart.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Been drawing mountains. Not the snow capped pinnacles we are often fed, but the soft green giants of the West Highlands, tear streaked with countless waterfalls.

Charcoal drawing of a mountain, head in the clouds, waterfall steaks and trees in the foreground.

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Claire Cansick @clairecansickart.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

The last few days of World of Water at the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Art, closes the end of Sunday 3 August. What a wonderful time I’ve had, thank you everyone involved.

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Claire Cansick @clairecansickart.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

I sometimes look at others work, and wonder at their use of bright or clean colour, wonder if I ought to try it, mix things up a bit. Then I bump into a Sickert, and my heart pounds.

A page of 12 of my paintings of the sea.

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Claire Cansick @clairecansickart.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

It’s coming on. I’m enjoying the colour palette. Work in progress, oil on board.

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Claire Cansick @clairecansickart.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Bone Soup II, oil on wood, 61 x 45.5cm 2025 I think I could go big working this way. Trouble is I’ve nowhere to put it if I do.

Painting of several skeletons tumbling in a wave, a ship idles on the horizon.

Detail of a painting of skeletal bones underwater.

Detail of a painting of a ship on the horizon

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Claire Cansick @clairecansickart.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Sent this baby off to the framers today. After framing work for Sainsbury Centre in black, at the curator’s request, I’m a convert. Looking forward to seeing it completed. It is off to Scotland in a few weeks.

Painting of a wave in pinks purples and greens, a skeleton tumbles within.

Photo of the painting in full, with a white background.

Close up of the skeleton swirling in the water

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Claire Cansick @clairecansickart.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

More of this, broke in a brand spanking new sketchbook with this drawing. I like it, am going to do more. Been reading Iris Murdoch again where the serpent represents the main character’s dark psyche, loose morals and delusion.

Tangle of sea serpents within a wave drawn in charcoal

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Claire Cansick @clairecansickart.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Sea Serpent drawing and the beginnings of a painting of the same thing. Both works in progress.

Sea serpent charcoal drawing of a snake swimming in a wave.

Rough palimpsest background with a smooth snake painted on top. Work in progress.

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Claire Cansick @clairecansickart.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Deeply satisfying painting to make as the colour gods were on my side. Skeletons have obvious connotations, but in this case, they are, of course, me. Me so in love with the sea I never want to get out. Never Knew Love Oil on wood 51 x 61cm 2025

Seascape with a tumbling skeleton thoroughly enjoying themselves, a distant ship passes by on the horizon. Life goes on.

Detail of skeleton, I think I detect a grin

Detail of horizon with a tanker passing by

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Claire Cansick @clairecansickart.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Haar, oil on canvas, 2023 The largest painting I have ever made Haar, measures 176 x 293cm, and will be shown at Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts March 15 - August 3 2025 in World of Water as part of this season’s exhibition Can the Seas Survive Us?

Haar, a dark seascape of undulating wave with a band of light and a ship on the horizon.

Detail of Haar horizon with a violet sky, strip of light and a ship merging into a band of indigo.

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Claire Cansick @clairecansickart.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Aphrodite Reborn, oil on canvas, 2023 This painting is the second to be exhibited at Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts March 15 - August 3 2025 in World of Water, part of this season’s exhibition at the institution Can The Seas Survive Us? which explores our relationship with the North Sea.

Aphrodite Reborn a wave painting with a mysterious shadow holding seaweed, which is how I feel while in the North Sea, except the seaweed is in my hair and I’m swearing at the cold.

Horizon detail with distant buoy which marks the shipwrecked SS White Swan off Gorleston

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Claire Cansick @clairecansickart.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Scroby Sands, oil on canvas diptych, 2024. Its debut will be at Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts from March 15 - August 3 2025 in The World of Water, as part of Can The Seas Survive Us? exhibition exploring our relationship with the North Sea.

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