Two materials, one studio
Oil paint and bronze, worked side by side in a converted farm building near Lisbon.
Painting
My paintings begin as colour fields laid down in thin oil washes on linen, then built, scraped and glazed over weeks. I use a limited palette of ultramarine, raw sienna, vermilion and bone white, so each canvas keeps a quiet, mineral light.
Sizes run from small studies on panel to canvases of two metres. I paint on the north wall of the studio, in the even light that the Arrábida hills give until late afternoon.
Bronze
Each sculpture is modelled in wax and cast by the lost-wax method at a small foundry in Setúbal, where I attend every pour. Back in the studio I chase the surface, then colour it with patinas of liver of sulphur, ferric nitrate and wax.
Editions are small, between three and eight casts, and every cast is numbered, signed and documented with a certificate.
Clara Voss
Born in Hamburg in 1983, Clara has lived and worked near Lisbon since 2009.
Salt and Ochre
Solo exhibition, Galeria Ponto Azul, Lisbon: 14 paintings and 5 bronzes.
New Atlantic Sculpture
Group exhibition, Museu Municipal de Setúbal.
Casa Atlântica residency
Three months learning bronze casting in Funchal, Madeira.
First solo show
Galeria Ponto Azul, Lisbon, with 22 oil paintings.
MA in Painting
Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Lisbon.