Description: Claire Phillips is a British contemporary portrait painter specialising in large-scale oil portraits communicating individual personal stories. Claire Phillips art portrays death row inmates in the USA, child labour survivors in India and local people in her Sussex village.
Reclaiming Childhood
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Claire is a British portrait painter. Through large-scale oil portraits she communicates individual personal stories, revealing aspects of humanity or human experience in general. Whether expressing the extraordinariness of people she meets every day - the window cleaner, beekeeper or dairyman - or portraying the simple humanity of those facing the most extraordinary situations - the executioner, the death row prisoner, or the murder victim's family.