Introduction
CLAIRE MC DERMOTT ARBS is a British artist who lives and works in London.
Classically trained in wood carving, gilding and applied ornamentation and has
been commissioned widely with some of her work on view at the British Museum and V & A.
After 10 years of working in applied decoration McDermott has produced a portfolio of mixed
media works using photography, painting and sculpture.
The artist takes her inspiration from nature and by using microscopic equipment takes the
viewer on a journey into a miniature world of exploration.
McDermott uses traditions techniques and precious materials to produce illuminated
landscapes drenched in gold, creating abstract scapes, which at a glance appear opulent,
but on further inspection are frozen and fossilized worlds.
Education
De Montford University, Lincoln, in Historic Decorative Arts 1996
Contact details
Work tel: 07866517161
Website: http://www.clairemcdermott.co.uk
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Image Gallery
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Title: Adore
Dimensions: 34 x 63 cm
Media: Watercolour
Description: <p>McDermott paints delicate water colours of Tulip flowers in transition. By using microscopes, binocular magnifier, paints different aspects of light so that simple discoveries of beauty are found.p>
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Title: Refine
Dimensions: 60x 40 cm
Media: photograph
Description: <p>The Golden Mini Worlds are images of Colophony hardening when in contact with air. photographs mounted on aluminum </p>
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Title: Virture
Dimensions: 22cm wide
Media: copper
Description: <p>Inspired from the painting’s of the spent tulips Mc Dermott translated them into sculpture by firstly drawing petals to form a flower with reference only of the spent tulips, by memory.p>