Claire Stening: Shutter Light

Overview

Grab a paintbrush, find something pretty, pick a surface, add a little texture, finish it off with some shadow, and you’ve got yourself a still life. While these types of paintings tend to shoot straight as far as execution, Brisbane artist Claire Stening adds a unique tranquility to her depiction of everyday objects.

Stening plays with light on fabric, the transparency of glass, and contours of solids, to create almost calm and natural compositions and motions in her work. Her neutral palette further softens her pieces into a light that draws the radiant from the real. From old copper pots to antique bottles she paints the aged in a means that is fresh, and rife with immediacy.

Stening has exhibited extensively throughout Australia, was the finalist in the Portia Geech Memorial Award 2010 and was invited to show with the Salon Des Refuses from 2008 to 2010. Now, you can see her calming and creative work in the flesh at Edwina Corlette Gallery till the 16^th of August.