Claire Mooney

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Claire Mooney explores the metaphorical possibilities of geometric pattern and colour through paint and textiles. She embraces structure and chance through her making processes, creating meticulous, rhythmic abstract compositions. 

Using collage as a starting point, she fragments and realigns patterns intuitively, capturing moments of surprising beauty that arise from unexpected interactions and resolutions. These are translated into paint and thread, and unified through colour; where multiple layers of repetitive brushstrokes or threads are refined to create complex colour relationships. 

Claire’s patterns and colours often begin from personal experiences of nature, or act as an echo of the visual complexities of natural systems; but her inspiration also emerges from concepts of interference and complexity, rooted in chaos theory and quantum mechanics, where dynamic systems interact and evolve in unexpected ways.

Her aim is to develop an abstract visual language that balances spontaneity and responsiveness with precision and geometry, reflecting the beauty in both the chaos and structure that shape our world.