Claire Luxton
Claire Luxton
Crepusculum Wall Mural One of four styles from the Botanica Collection £49 per m2 from FEATHR.com |
This magnificent gothic wall mural is by the young and hugely talented British multidisciplinary artist Claire Luxton. Evolving from her original Botanica series – large-scale photographic works of her face engulfed in flowers - Luxton has created four, quite distinct, beautiful wall murals. Crepusculum is the darkest and most dramatic but each mural is similar in style: a close-up, crisp, single floral image that is both intense and immersive.
Luxton received sponsorship, in the form of crates of flowers from McQueens, the florist. She chose the flowers on the basis of colour, the way in which they worked together and their unusual shapes and texture, and recalls choosing one flower for its giant thistle, prehistoric and sculptural shape and another for its similarity to a brain. Clambering onto a large Perspex-topped trestle table, Luxton positions the flowers, foliage, water droplets and coloured inks and then shoots the images from below. She uses a powerful camera to ensure the clarity and crispness of every detail - given each flower is magnified to the size of a human head. Luxton has recently installed a 2,000-part paper-inspired sculptural work in No. 1 Knightsbridge, home of J.P. Morgan. For more information: FEATHR.com and degreeart.com Hedge issue 49, pp74-79, February 2018 |
Claire Luxton
Nebula No.1 (2016) 150 × 120 × 5 cm Epoxy resin, pigments and spray paint on stretched canvas £3,850 Courtesy of the artist and DegreeArt.com |
Turquoise-haired multidisciplinary artist Claire Luxton (born in 1991) graduated from Goldsmiths with a BA in fine art in 2014. This painter/sculptor/photographer experienced such demand for her work that just nine months after graduating she became a full time artist, has delivered one solo show and is planning another.
Having a father who makes model steam engines, Luxton is entirely practical: she makes her own Perspex scrapers, creates corrosive liquid to weather steel and personally welds the panels of her large-scale sculptural installations. ‘Nebula No. 1’ is a beautiful painting of colour, depth and movement, which includes Luxton’s signature blues, blacks, greys and golds. The use of resin as a medium – with its fluidity, merging of colours and glossiness – reflects Luxton’s fascination with the sea. Resin, however, has its challenges: it can harden too quickly, lose its consistency or not set at all; it can bleed – resulting in a brown painting; and it must be painted on a flat canvas but raised on breeze blocks otherwise the cascading resin will weld it to the ground. But this doesn’t faze Luxton who is excited by its unpredictability. For more information, see DegreeArt.com Hedge, issue 42, July 2016, pp70-76 |