About Clare Woods
INTUITIVE ABSTRACT ARTIST
Clare Woods is an intuitive abstract artist based in Matakana and in Torbay, Auckland, New Zealand.
Clare has explored many mediums including clay, printing and fibre art. She now predominantly paints in acrylics on canvas and often incorporates mediums such as pencil, crayon or pastel in her mark-making. Clare also enjoys collage and monoprinting and is exploring this further.
Clares collage work is intensely colourful. Her current collage work is created with hundreds of hand-painted and hand-cut swatches. All connected and overlapping to create something beyond where they began. Each section is as unique as a fingerprint. Each tells it’s own story. Designed to always create an uplifting response. Clare’s work is always joyful, colourful and vibrant.
She uses techniques such as complex layering and mark-making to tell an underlining story with thick and experimental tool paint application. Similar marks and shapes, repeat in her work and compose a unique signature style.
In 2022 Clare took an opportunity to delve into an idea that had been brewing. She began her Wearable Art collection seen on the Earrings page.
