Claire Burke’s has quietly developed over the past 4 years her diminutive small panel pieces alongside her Oil Paintings. 

Claire constructs these panels with a variety of materials including Copper and Aluminium leaf, gilding wax, paste, acrylic paint, graphite powder and pure dry pigments. The works are an exploration in texture and material, particularly the boundaries between the surfaces. As with all of Claire Burke's work the process and its visibility through the layers of applied material comprise a large part of the content. Her simple individual panels combine to form an aesthetic dialogue that refers to both natural and manmade surfaces.

These new works have a deceptively simple appearance, they have been described as ‘elegant’ and ‘beautiful’, yet they still retain a subtlety and discretion that has always been fundamental to Claire’s work.

Pressure has been mounting for some years now for Claire to advance the development of these pieces into larger works. At Last Claire has decided to evolve the pieces on a considerably larger scale of her own accord, much to the delight of her agents and buyers alike. The range now spans 35cm x 25cm through to 120cm x 90cm.

The pieces are now being developed in real silver as well as the schlag metal leaf she has previously used.

Collections now include;

Iris Properties Ltd
Mesirow Financial
NYRSTAR
The Connaught
Advent International plc
Claredon Bank