claire cotts, submitted artwork
claire cotts
Painting
Berkeeley, CA
claire b cotts bio Artist Claire B Cotts has been exhibiting her distinctive, richly layered figurative and abstract canvases for over thirty years years. Her work has been exhibited nationally, including at the De Young Art Museum in San Francisco, and is represented in numerous private and corporate collections. She has done several residencies, including a year in Turkey on Fulbright Fellowship Born in Atlanta, Georgia, Ms. Cotts lives and works in Berkeley, California.
Works
claire cotts, submitted artwork
about the paintings Much of my work is an exploration of elemental forces in nature. I’m interested in the tension and precarious balance of contradictory elemental forces: heaviness vs weightless buoyancy, contraction vs unfurling. In the paintings, forms emerge and recede, float weightlessly and are counterbalanced by the pull and tug of gravity. Inspiration for these paintings comes from forms in the natural world - the quiet of an undersea world, a precariously stacked cairn of stones, an eclipse, a butterfly’s wing, flowing seaweed.
