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Clarebondart @clarebondart.bsky.social · 2h

I went looking for the limitless wild in Alaska, Lutruwita and Iceland. I found our fingerprints instead. This small painting holds the hardest number I know. If you are in the US, the Roadless Rule comment closes tomorrow (October 6th, 2026). Let your voice (and choice) be heard. 🧵

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Clarebondart @clarebondart.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Work in progress in the studio: some color studies for my new Yosemite works If you’re in the US a gentle reminder that you have until Tuesday October 6th to comment on the push by the Forest Service to rescind the Roadless Rule. 🧵

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Clarebondart @clarebondart.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

These charcoal studies are trying to capture what backpacking the Grand Canyon of the Tuolumne felt like in my body: small, held, and far from everything. #yosemite #charcoalart #abstractlandscape #artistlife #artiststudio

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Clarebondart @clarebondart.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Starting on a new body of work based on my recent backpacking trip in Yosemite. Proposals being considered by the current administration would see a private road built through Yosemite National Park.

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Clarebondart @clarebondart.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Those golds and dark browns are what I experienced on the Lost Coast Trail — pebbles shifting underfoot, bluff grass in fog, sand darkening at low tide — folded into canvas over 10 months after I finished that hike. #sculpture #abstractart #lostcoast #oilpainting #contemporarysculpture

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Clarebondart @clarebondart.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Merimbula jetty: I wasn't sketching when the stingrays came through, pale shapes floating and flying under the water. I didn't try to capture them. I just watched. I'd painted the pink sandstone earlier that day, stress slipping away on the beach.

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Clarebondart @clarebondart.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Drawn on the train from Florence to Zurich. The alps flashed past soaring and rugged. Here are my attempts to sketch them before they disappeared behind us. #SwissAlps #TravelSketchbook #AbstractLandscape #MountainArt #PleinAirSketching #WildPlaces #WomenWhoExplore #SketchbookPages #ArtForCollectors

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Clarebondart @clarebondart.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This work would not stay contained on the wall. It grew a root-like tail trailing across my studio floor. Stretching out like roots do. That reach represents the Lost Coast Trail, pulling me forward along the bluffs. #LostCoast #AbstractSculpture #KingRange #CaliforniasLostCoast #WildPlaces

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Clarebondart @clarebondart.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Olive trees don't stand still. In the wind they turn silver, then green, then silver again, and the whole grove seems to breathe at once. 🧵 #pleinairpainting #abstractlandscapepainting #landscapepainting #abstractpainting #texturedart #artcollector #tuscany #olivetrees #olivegrove

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Clarebondart @clarebondart.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Tuscany. The morning after. I smelled this storm before I saw it. I wanted to paint what the storm left in the mountains. "After the Storm" — watercolor and oil pastel on paper, 12 x 9 in. #petrichor #watercolorpainting #abstractlandscapepainting #tuscany #pleinairpainting

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Clarebondart @clarebondart.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Loose and gestural, drawn fast at the villa. I didn't want to draw trees. I wanted to draw the feeling of standing among them. #pleinairpainting #landscapepainting #abstractpainting #texturedart #artcollector #tuscany #olivetrees #olivegrove

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Clarebondart @clarebondart.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Staying in an 11th century castle in Burgundy, far from the wild places I usually paint. I struggled, surrounded by a village and fields, no big trees, no ocean. #abstractwatercolor #burgundyfrance #abstractlandscapepainting #watercolorsketchbook #pleinairpainting #watercolorartist #sketching

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Clarebondart @clarebondart.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The slow curve of the Serein at Noyers-sur-Serein. Just willow light, still water, and that medieval quiet that makes you breathe slower. #abstractlandscape #landscapeartist #womenwhohike #midlifereinvention #artandnature #natureinspiredart #slowlooking #wildplaces #paintoutdoors

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Clarebondart @clarebondart.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

We've been driving through the countryside in Burgundy, France, and I've been using these small sketchbooks to capture what I see from the car window. #abstractlandscape #landscapeartist #artandnature #natureinspiredart #frenchvillages #slowlooking #wildplaces #sketchbook

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Clarebondart @clarebondart.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

She was erected by human hands and wedged with stones, then left for 30 centuries under tall trees. I love that the forest protected her. For me, this is why I hike: to sit with wild places that remember longer than we do. #standingstone #menhir #pleinairsketch, #artisthikes #sketchbookart

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Clarebondart @clarebondart.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I was deeply inspired by the vivid pink sandstone rocks on the beach near Merimbula earlier this year, and spent several mornings sketching the vivid color and shapes of the rock. #AbstractLandscape #ContemporaryLandscape #Merimbula #Watercolor #PleinAirPainting

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Clarebondart @clarebondart.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Some mornings the wild speaks first. A magpie sang before I'd even set down my bag and the drawings that followed weren't about capturing the place, but about capturing my connection to it. #PleinAirPainting #AbstractLandscape #magpie #Merimbula #ArtFromNature

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Clarebondart @clarebondart.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Ulva II, 2026 Oil on Paper 20 x 30 in Inspired by the bright green sea lettuce on the beach near Merimbula. Full story of the inspiration behind this work is up on my YouTube Channel youtu.be/gxmbSHeWeVk #AbstractLandscape #ContemporaryLandscape #Merimbula #OilPainting #ContemporaryPainting

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Clarebondart @clarebondart.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

This bright green seaweed on the pink rocks at the beach near Merimbula stopped me mid-sketch. Two mornings on the rocks, and what those pages became back in the studio. Full story is now live on the channel #Merimbula #PleinAirPainting #AbstractLandscape #AustralianCoast #OilPainting

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Clarebondart @clarebondart.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Ulva I, 2025 Oil on Paper 20 x 30 in Inspired by the bright green sea lettuce growing on the rocks at Merimbula, Australia. See the full story behind these works on my YouTube Channel. youtube.com/@clarebondart #AbstractLandscape #ContemporaryLandscape #Merimbula #OilPainting #ContemporaryPainting

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Clarebondart @clarebondart.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

These tiny sketchbooks have become an indispensable part of my process. Tucked into a pocket, they act as a record of mark making, quickly capturing the memory of a place. #Sketch #Sketchbook #PleinAIr #AbstractLandscape #ContemporaryLandscape

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Clarebondart @clarebondart.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

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Clarebondart @clarebondart.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Making progress on this painting, once languishing in my 'studio graveyard' and now finding its way towards completion. #ArtLife #OilPainting #ContemporaryArt #Abstract #AbstractLandscape

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Clarebondart @clarebondart.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Three small watercolors, balanced on a log at the edge of the wild. This is the art... and this is the wild that made it. Sometimes art has to be walked into existence. #lostcoast #pleinair #watercolor #abstractart #backpacking

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Clarebondart @clarebondart.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Working back into some paintings that have been sitting in the painting graveyard for a bit. Curious to see where this goes. #Abstract #AbstractLandscape #ArtistLife #PaintingProcess #oilPainting

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Clarebondart @clarebondart.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Gold sinking into a deep, rich, textured brown. The way the fog broke over the bluffs, revealing the golden grass. The darkening of the sand at low tide. #abstractart #abstractpainting #artprocess #goldpainting #texturedart #lostcoast #artasmr #pleinair #asmr

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Clarebondart @clarebondart.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Just back from 4 amazing days drawing and backpacking the Lost Coast Trail for the second time. Magical place, amazing experience. #LostCoastTrail #PleinAir #ContemporaryArt #AbstractLandscape #WildPlaces

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Clarebondart @clarebondart.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

These colors were collected on trail, one step at a time. This piece holds the whole of my Lost Coast experience within it. Full story on my YouTube Channel: youtu.be/9KeAMwRal30 #abstractlandscape #pleinair #lostcoasttrail #contemporaryart #artprocess #artiststudio #sculpture #midlifeadventure

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Clarebondart @clarebondart.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Anticlinal Meander, 2026 Oil on Canvas 43 x 65 x 36 in / 109 x 165 x 90 cm New video up on YouTube goes into detail on the inspiration and making of this one! youtu.be/9KeAMwRal30 #sculpture #abstractsculpture #abstract #abstractart

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Clarebondart @clarebondart.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Water dimpling Tumbled granite Pulsating heat Backpacking the Grand Canyon of the Tuolumne, Yosemite National Park. July, 2026. #Yosemite #SierraNevada #AbstractLandscape #Sketchbook #ArtLife

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Clarebondart @clarebondart.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Spent some time yesterday taking some interior shots of Deep Acclivity. Loving this work in an interior space. Deep Acclivity, 2025 Oil on Canvas 40 x 40 x 6 in / 102 x 102 x 15 cm With thanks to @patrickdintino #ArtLife #ContemporaryArt #sculpture #AbstractLandscape #Abstract

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Clarebondart @clarebondart.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

The trip that had me sleeping next to bear prints... also made me fall in love with the Lost Coast. So I went back: solo, car camping, three more days of painting. #LostCoastTrail #SeaOtter #PleinAirPainting #SoloHiking #WildernessArt #AbstractLandscape

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Clarebondart @clarebondart.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Light shafts, shifting shadows, Yellow hills flash with green Deeply pooling dark coexists with bright Transcendent Cleft, 2025 Oil on Canvas 40 x 12 x 6 in / 101 x 20 x 15 cm #AbstractLandscape #Sculpture #LandscapeSculpture #OilPainting #ContemporaryLandscape

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Clarebondart @clarebondart.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Finishing some work means cracking out the camera, and setting the studio up for photography. New work is up on the website! #ArtistLife #ArtStudio #AbstractLandscape #Sculpture #AbstractSculpture

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Clarebondart @clarebondart.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Hundreds of winds. No shortcuts. This is how a tendril is born — one pass of waxed thread at a time. The sculpture isn't finished yet, but I wanted you to see the part that is. 🧵 #ProcessArt #SculptureInProgress #SlowStitching #ArtistLife #MixedMediaArt #HandmadeArt #StudioProcess #AbstractSculpture

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Clarebondart @clarebondart.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Super excited to be getting ready for 4 days backpacking the Grand Canyon of the Tuolumne. Excited for the hike and to make some art in this amazing place. #Yosemite #AbstractLandscape #ArtLife #CreativeProcess #ContemporaryLandscape

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Clarebondart @clarebondart.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

At Mattole Beach, the wind, fog and sand didn’t just interrupt the painting. They became part of it. Full story of this drawing trip is up on my YouTube channel. Link in bio. #pleinairpainting #landscapeart #natureinspiredart #lostcoast

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Clarebondart @clarebondart.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

I had hoped to spend the day painting Lord Howe Island, but the rain arrived first. Perhaps that’s the joy of painting outdoors: you don’t just paint a place—you paint the moment you were there. #LordHoweIsland #PleinAirPainting #AbstractLandscapePainting #NatureInspiredArt

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Clarebondart @clarebondart.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Skerry Color Study, 2026 Oil on canvas Exploring the colors and shapes of the rocky islands and the cool gray sea off the coast near Seward in Alaska Marshall Islands, Alaska #Alaska #AbstractArt #AbstractLandscape #MindfulTravel #OilPainting

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Clarebondart @clarebondart.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

There, sitting on a fence post above the ocean, was a red-shouldered hawk. The rust, orange, and brown patterning of its feathers stayed with me. I had to translate it into abstract marks. #AbstractPainting #AbstractLandscapePainting #Wildlife #ArtistLife #RedShoulderedHawk #CaliforniaCoastalTrail

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Clarebondart @clarebondart.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Moss Color Study, 2026 Oil and acrylic on paper Sunlight shafts. Quiet underfoot. No bears. Kodiak Island, Alaska #Alaska #AbstractArt #AbstractLandscape #MindfulTravel #OilPainting

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Clarebondart @clarebondart.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

You don’t expect glaciers to be so colourful. But they are. Magically so. I wasn’t trying to reproduce the glacier. I was responding to its colour, texture, and immense presence. The sketch carries the memory. #Iceland #Glacier #AbstractArt #PleinAirPainting #MindfulTravel #Sketchbook

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Clarebondart @clarebondart.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

I've been working on a series of color studies based on my documentation from my recent trip to Kenai Peninsula and Kodiak Island. The glow of light on moss The teal of deep glacier ice The bright green of spring buds #AlaskaWildlife #abstractlandscape #conservation #artprocess #colorstudies

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Clarebondart @clarebondart.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

I walked the Hartz Mountain landscape as a child and felt their magic — but I didn't have words for it. Coming back as an artist shifted things. Full Story: youtu.be/6Ol2_jojplE?... #pleinairpainting #lifeaftercorporate #abstractlandscapepainting #pleinairartist #Tasmania #artistlife #slowliving

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Clarebondart @clarebondart.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

I've been working on a series of abstract charcoal drawings based on my recent trip to Alaska. In these drawings I'm exploring texture and shape to trigger inspiration for sculptural works. #AbstractLandscape #ArtStudio #charcoal #Drawing #WildernessArt

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Clarebondart @clarebondart.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

I sat at Ned's Beach on Lord Howe Island and opened my sketchbook — and something about it felt unexpectedly important. The full story of this trip is on YouTube: youtu.be/SblhjHXBI-w?... #pleinair #lordhoweisland #wildplaces #artistlife #abstractlandscapeart #pleinairsketching

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Clarebondart @clarebondart.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Meanwhile this - not yet named - sculpture/painting hybrid is slowly evolving in the studio. #AbstractLandscape #AbstractArt #Sculpture #Contemporary #Sculpture #SculptureStudio

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