CLARE MASON
is a multidisciplinary artist living and working in Penzance, Cornwall.
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Growing up in the Worcester countryside, Clare has always been drawn to the beauty held in nature. Now, Cornwall serves as deep inspiration, with the surrounding seascapes offering worlds of light and colour to translate into artworks.
Independent and aspirational from the beginning, Clare left home at 15 to pursue her creativity, putting herself through college and university before moving to London to start her own business in Camden Market. In just three months of making her own jewellery, her work was sold in The Designer Gallery in the illustrious Oxford Street Selfridges alongside Gucci and Dior. Her work has been showcased and sold in over 30 galleries across the UK, and has been featured in film and television, including Anne Hathaway’s Ella Enchanted. You can view Clare’s portfolio here.
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In deep blues and gentle sand-tones, Clare’s artwork acts to preserve a single moment of witnessing the sea, the energy and intensity of Cornwall’s surrounding seascape translated into paint. Her work often incorporates residual silver and gold dust from the jewellery bench to create true light-reflective highlights in the paintings and allowing the scene to come to life in the frame. Find more here.
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Her jewellery retains this sense of seascape through the delicate colours of her chosen precious stones (multi-coloured sapphires and diamonds) and semi-precious-stones (Swarovski crystals and freshwater pearls) which also act to capture or reflect the light when they are in wear. Paired with sterling & argentium silver, and 9ct & 18ct gold, the jewellery evolves from being another daily accessory to being a wearable piece of art. For select designs, Clare sets stones along thin-yet-strong fishing line to create the illusion of stones floating around the wrist or neck. Her work is transformative of the materials she works with, creating elegant, intricate designs in celebration of this craft. Find more here.
“Each piece is a direct result of allowing divine energy to flow through me in the moment rather than a specifically thought out process. I never draw designs first, instead they evolve minute by minute on the workbench in the same way a wave rolls along the beach — seemingly random but perfectly synchronised. Of course there has to be a certain amount of discipline, but my work evolves naturally moment by moment rather than from a calculated method. This practice allows me to tune into synchronicity — the happy accidents that happen when I’m making jewellery, the movement captured in painting. Every wave is synonymous with time; no two waves are ever exactly the same, but are unique in form. This consistent irregularity — an oxymoron — is an immaculate dance not unlike the Fibonacci sequence. I believe my designs replicate this perpetual uniqueness, because every piece is made in its entirety by one pair of hands.
I am glorifying God’s creation through my work. The sea, the sky, the air, the atmosphere and nature. I feel I am representing that natural beauty, preserving it. It is a process of joy, of seeing The Holy Spirit guide through me, my hands, into my work. I’m in genuine and constant awe of god’s mastery through nature, His divine creation. I believe He is the master artist, scientist and creator”
— Clare Mason, 2023
CLARE MASON
Growing up in the Worcester countryside, Clare has always been drawn to the joy and beauty held in nature. Now, Cornwall serves as deep inspiration, with the surrounding seascapes offering worlds of light and colour to translate into artworks.
“My work is the capturing of a witnessed moment. In jewellery and paintings, you are taking a piece of Cornwall home with you, preserving those memories; the colours, the textures, the light.”
Independent and aspirational from the beginning, Clare left home at 15 to pursue her creativity, putting herself through college and university before moving to London to start her own business in Camden Market. In just three months of making her own jewellery, her work was sold in The Designer Gallery in the illustrious Oxford Street Selfridges alongside Gucci and Dior. Her work has been showcased and sold in over 30 galleries across the UK, and has been featured in film and television, including Anne Hathaway’s Ella Enchanted. You can view Clare’s portfolio here.
Clare Mason’s studio, a beautiful gallery on Penzance’s historic Chapel Street, is a showcase of her available works — find the gallery here.
“I act to capture the gemlike quality of the sea — the momentary gem-like flash of light as a wave crashes onto the shore.”
In deep blues and gentle sand-tones, Clare’s artwork acts to preserve a single moment of witnessing the sea, the energy and intensity of Cornwall’s surrounding seascape translated into paint. Her work often incorporates residual silver and gold dust from the jewellery bench to create true light-reflective highlights in the paintings and allowing the scene to come to life in the frame. View more here.
Her jewellery retains this sense of seascape through the delicate colours of her chosen precious stones (multi-coloured sapphires and diamonds) and semi-precious-stones (Swarovski crystals and freshwater pearls) which also act to capture or reflect the light when they are in wear. Paired with sterling & argentium silver, and 9ct & 18ct gold, the jewellery evolves from being another daily accessory to being a wearable piece of art.
For select designs, Clare sets stones along thin-yet-strong fishing line to create the illusion of stones floating around the wrist or neck. Her work is transformative of the materials she works with, creating elegant, intricate designs in celebration of this craft. View more here.
