Claire Norton
Artist Claire Norton is fascinated by the human body; by its appearance, physiology, form and function. Inspired by her experience of her own body, as a keen sportswoman and her background as a sports massage therapist, and through the experiences of her father, who had the rare endocrine condition acromegaly which manifested itself in many ways, both seen and unseen, the focus of much of her work is the contrast between the body’s surface and what lies beneath.
Our bodies embody so much: energy; sensuality; physicality; spontaneity; sensitivity; the visceral; and the subdued, to name a few, and she explores these in her work. Frequently using photographic imagery as a source from which to develop her ideas, Claire enjoys exploring the ambiguous nature of familiar forms, using relative scale, cropping and layering to abstract every day representations.
