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Daniel & Clara @danielandclara.bsky.social · 1d

Online Studio Visit coming up this Saturday at 1pm!

We'll be speaking about the motif of figures sleeping, dreaming and falling in the landscape in our work and some of the art that has inspired us 🍂

✨ To attend, sign up via our Patreon:
www.patreon.com/danielandclara

Everyone welcome!

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David Cook @spiddly.bsky.social · Jul 17

“The ground which a few months ago was boggy and squelched beneath our boots is now concrete-dry under flattened wisps of crisp yellow grass.”

Summer arrives in ‘The Naturalist Letters’ series from @danielandclara.bsky.social bit.ly/4gFnHbc #MailArt

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Daniel & Clara @danielandclara.bsky.social · Jul 5

Online Studio Visit – today at 1pm!

We'll be sharing Angels, our new series of painted photographs for the first time and talking about the development of painted photographs in our practice.

✨ To join, sign up via our Patreon:
www.patreon.com/danielandclara

Everyone welcome!

Daniel & Clara @danielandclara.bsky.social · Jun 22

We recently had a studio visit from this little chap ❤️

#studiovisit #artiststudio #artlife

Daniel & Clara @danielandclara.bsky.social · Jun 22

New post on Patreon - a peek behind the scenes of our new series of painted photographs + invite to our Patreon-only online studio visit - click below to join 👇

Painting Angels + Online Studio Visit: 5th July | Daniel & Clara

Get more from Daniel & Clara on Patreon

www.patreon.com

Daniel & Clara @danielandclara.bsky.social · Apr 25

The past in the present and the present as the future past (Avebury Stone #31)

View more: danielandclara.com/The-past-in-...

2024, c-type photograph hand-painted in acrylic, 45.7 x 30.5 cm

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Daniel & Clara @danielandclara.bsky.social · Apr 3

We also think of the '&' as being like a serpent, the very same that whispered in Eve's ear and told her to eat the fruit – she was wise enough to listen! We too listen to the whispers from the darkness, from nature, from within.

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Daniel & Clara @danielandclara.bsky.social · Apr 3

We think of the artist as a servant of the creative spirit. Our job is to create what only we can create. This manifests differently for each of us and that's why it counts, it's about a myriad of unique perspectives. In this sense '&' is also a symbol of infinite possibilities.

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Daniel & Clara @danielandclara.bsky.social · Apr 3

We always use an '&' between our names, never an 'and'.

The '&' is like a magic thread which binds us, it represents the third component of our collaboration which is neither of us individually but the two of us combined.

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Daniel & Clara @danielandclara.bsky.social · Apr 2

We've been making mail art now for 7 years!

It all started with this letter, written as a kind of declaration of transformation and rebirth.

Learn more about our mail art projects here: danielandclara.com/Mail-Art

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Daniel & Clara @danielandclara.bsky.social · Apr 1

The latest in our new mail art series has been posted and will be arriving with subscribers very soon! 🌿🦉

It's not too late to sign up to receive these, details here: tinyurl.com/bcjdrmjy

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Claire Partington @clairepartington.bsky.social · Mar 9

Exhibition installation views of my work in Common Ground at The Wilson, Cheltenham, curated by Ben Edge.
On show 21 February to 31 August 2025
www.cheltenhammuseum.org.uk/event/common...

#art #artexhibition #comonground #ceramic #fineart #contemporaryart #contemporaryceramics #clairepartington

Exhibition installation views of Common Ground at The Wilson, Cheltenham, curated by Ben Edge
On show 21 February to 31 August 2025
https://www.cheltenhammuseum.org.uk/event/common-ground/

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David Cook @spiddly.bsky.social · Mar 6

“Blind lichen - static lichen - not seeing and not moving as we see and move. A way of being beyond comprehension to the frenetic beat of our mammalian hearts.”

Second in ‘The Naturalist Letters’ series from @danielandclara.bsky.social explores a colourful and small world bit.ly/4gFnHbc #MailArt

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Dean Kavanagh @deankavanagh.bsky.social · Mar 2

I wrote a short piece about my friend, the late great filmmaker and painter, Joseph Bernard.

Thanks to the Ultra Dogme team.

You can read it here:

ultradogme.com/2025/02/28/j...

Joseph Bernard (1941–2025) - Ultra Dogme

Dean Kavanagh on his friend and fellow filmmaker, the late Joseph Bernard.

ultradogme.com

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Daniel & Clara @danielandclara.bsky.social · Mar 2

From our series 'Birds & Beasts of the Countryside', see more here: danielandclara.com/Birds-Beasts

Daniel & Clara @danielandclara.bsky.social · Feb 27

Mail art mail out!

We've just posted the latest Naturalist Letter to the 40 wonderful humans that joined the project, they should be landing on your doormats in the next couple of days.

Join here if you would like to receive monthly mail art from us through 2025: danielandclara.com/Mail-Art-Shop

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Exploding Appendix @explodingappendix.bsky.social · Feb 24

David Lynch’s world-building didn’t stop at film. His paintings, drawings, and photography expand his eerie, dreamlike storytelling beyond the screen.   We will explore how his art blurs the boundaries between the familiar and the uncanny.
 🗓️ 4 Mar, 7 PM.📍Online & The Southern Belle, Hove 🔗 Free

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Daniel & Clara @danielandclara.bsky.social · Feb 24

Old Knobbley in Mistley, taken during a visit to the woods in 2022.

The tree is said to have been a hiding place for witches who were fleeing persecution during the Matthew Hopkins witch hunts.

This picture #15 from our ongoing series of Polaroid diptychs 'From Here To The End'

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Daniel & Clara @danielandclara.bsky.social · Feb 22

Getting ready for today's online studio visit, we'll be sharing some new work and thoughts on the connection between dreams and rewilding...

If you'd like to attend, join our patreon: patreon.com/danielandclara

Starts at 1pm GMT via Zoom 🐀🌿

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Claire Cansick @clairecansick.bsky.social · Feb 21

So next week this painting, the biggest I have ever made at 2 x 3m, is off to the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts for their exhibition Can The Seas Survive Us? Opens 15 March. I’m a bit scared/excited

Haar, a gigantic moody painting of a fluctuating dark sea and a ship on the horizon. Incidentally this is my all time favourite type of sky- slab of violet cloud squeezing light into a thin strip.

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Daniel & Clara @danielandclara.bsky.social · Feb 19

New post just added to our Patreon about rats, worms and the creative process...
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Also we'll be doing an online studio visit this Saturday for all subscribers – check out Patreon for details about how to join: www.patreon.com/danielandclara 🌿

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Daniel & Clara @danielandclara.bsky.social · Feb 16

The past in the present and the present as the future past (Avebury Stone #16)

2024, c-type photograph hand-painted in acrylic, 45.7 x 30.5 cm

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Exploding Appendix @explodingappendix.bsky.social · Feb 13

On Tuesday we dived deep into @danielandclara.bsky.social work where landscapes become living stories, bodies merge with environments, and creativity blurs boundaries between photography, film, and pure imagination.

🎨✨ Do check out their work - you are in for a treat!
#Landscape #Artists #Rec

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David Cook @spiddly.bsky.social · Feb 10

“These ancient weapons have been protecting the hedgerow’s secrets from the likes of us for millennia and show no signs of giving up now.”

The first of the new mail art series from @danielandclara.bsky.social has dropped, with ‘The Naturalist Letters’ bit.ly/4gFnHbc

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Daniel & Clara @danielandclara.bsky.social · Feb 7

Some current reading for new projects. Thinking about the history of nature study as an intellectual pursuit but also the subjective embodied experience of being out in the field face to the ground staring into the long grass or the depths of a pond as a way to glimpse reality beyond the human frame

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