Clare Chinnery is a British artist based on the Wirral whose work explores the charged tension between beauty and decay. Working primarily in oil paint, she builds rich, tactile surfaces through layering, scraping, and gestural mark‑making, often punctuated with bursts of spray paint that bring energy and immediacy to her compositions. Drawing inspiration from seventeenth‑century Dutch Vanitas painting, Clare reimagines classical still‑life symbolism through a contemporary, quietly rebellious lens. Her floral works in particular carry a punk sensibility, luminous, emotional, and alive, rejecting the saccharine in favour of something raw and resonant. Clare studied Fine Art Painting at Liverpool John Moores University and has exhibited widely across the UK, with work held in private collections internationally.
Light and Life Within The Semblance of Death
Original Artwork
Oil Paint and Spray paint on Canvas
Framed Measurements 43 cm x 43 cm
Light and Life Within the Semblance of Death is Clare Chinnery’s contemporary take on the memento mori tradition, a striking exploration of the tension between vitality and mortality. A skull sits in stillness, its quiet presence contrasted by vibrant, blooming flowers that pulse with colour and life.
The composition holds a delicate balance: beauty and impermanence, abundance and fragility, light and shadow. Clare’s layered textures and expressive mark‑making bring emotional depth to the work, inviting the viewer to reflect on the fleeting nature of time while still celebrating the richness of the present moment.
This is a powerful, contemplative piece, rooted in art history yet unmistakably modern, with Clare’s signature blend of texture, symbolism, and emotional resonance.
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Clare Chinnery is a British artist based on the Wirral whose work explores the charged tension between beauty and decay. Working primarily in oil paint, she builds rich, tactile surfaces through layering, scraping, and gestural mark‑making, often punctuated with bursts of spray paint that bring energy and immediacy to her compositions. Drawing inspiration from seventeenth‑century Dutch Vanitas painting, Clare reimagines classical still‑life symbolism through a contemporary, quietly rebellious lens. Her floral works in particular carry a punk sensibility, luminous, emotional, and alive, rejecting the saccharine in favour of something raw and resonant. Clare studied Fine Art Painting at Liverpool John Moores University and has exhibited widely across the UK, with work held in private collections internationally.
Light and Life Within The Semblance of Death
Original Artwork
Oil Paint and Spray paint on Canvas
Framed Measurements 43 cm x 43 cm
Light and Life Within the Semblance of Death is Clare Chinnery’s contemporary take on the memento mori tradition, a striking exploration of the tension between vitality and mortality. A skull sits in stillness, its quiet presence contrasted by vibrant, blooming flowers that pulse with colour and life.
The composition holds a delicate balance: beauty and impermanence, abundance and fragility, light and shadow. Clare’s layered textures and expressive mark‑making bring emotional depth to the work, inviting the viewer to reflect on the fleeting nature of time while still celebrating the richness of the present moment.
This is a powerful, contemplative piece, rooted in art history yet unmistakably modern, with Clare’s signature blend of texture, symbolism, and emotional resonance.
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For international orders, we do to ship worldwide! Please contact us (hello@svnthcrcl.com) for a custom shipping quote outside of the UK and Northern Ireland.
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