Daniel & Clara

We're having a big studio sale all this week with 15% off art + books to celebrate 15 years since we met and began our collaboration, take a look: danielandclara.com/Shop

What if the avant-garde wasn’t a European invention, but a global conversation?
We’ll explore 12 artworks from every continent to reimagine modernism as a network of exchange, resistance & reinvention.
🗓 Tuesday, 11 November📍The Southern Belle & online | Free
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#Talk

Filmmakers Thinking - Sticking Place Books Adrian Martin Foreword by Jude Radu Filmmakers Thinking begins from a simple premise: that we do not take the ongoing reflections of filmmakers about their medium, their art and their craft, seriously...

NEWS: There is now a cheaper way to buy my most recent book FILMMAKERS THINKING direct from its publisher, Sticking Place! You can bypass Amazon altogether (as I know some prefer to do). Here is the page to use. stickingplacebooks.com/filmmakers-t...

A few recent drawings made with homemade oak gall ink and quills, which we then chopped up into smaller pictures and have been carrying around in our pockets to give out – if you see us around make sure to ask for one!

This November marks 15 years since we first met & began making art together 💫

To celebrate, we’re hosting a special event on Sat 29 Nov at Firstsite — and you’re invited!

🎟️ Tickets + details: shorturl.at/uWaEO

Come celebrate with us! 💛

Super excited to be featured in the latest issue of Millennium Film
Journal

Huge thanks to @oksana2024.bsky.social for interviewing us about work!

The interview is called “From Landscape Films to Films as Landscapes”

Check it out in MFJ issue 82 “Real Life”: tinyurl.com/mtmuneeu

World Serpent drawing in charcoal, of a landscape, with a snake like creek running through it.

An old drawing of mine, titled World Serpent, but one I am returning to. It’s the proportions and warm, natural darkness of charcoal which interests me.

What does it mean to think through touch? 💭

Join us to explore the surreal world of Jan & Eva Švankmajer, where spoons, teapots & clay become portals to imagination and resistance.

🗓Tuesday 21 October, 7pm | 📍The Southern Belle & online | Free

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#Surrealism

The recording of yesterday's talk is now online!

We spoke about the motif of figures laying in landscapes in our work + other artists including Edward Burne-Jones, Andrei Tarkovsky, Ithell Colquhoun, John Wyndham and more!

Join our Patreon to watch:
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Online Studio Visit coming up this Saturday at 1pm!

We'll be speaking about the motif of figures sleeping, dreaming and falling in the landscape in our work and some of the art that has inspired us 🍂

✨ To attend, sign up via our Patreon:
www.patreon.com/danielandclara

Everyone welcome!

“The ground which a few months ago was boggy and squelched beneath our boots is now concrete-dry under flattened wisps of crisp yellow grass.”

Summer arrives in ‘The Naturalist Letters’ series from @danielandclara.bsky.social bit.ly/4gFnHbc #MailArt

Online Studio Visit – today at 1pm!

We'll be sharing Angels, our new series of painted photographs for the first time and talking about the development of painted photographs in our practice.

✨ To join, sign up via our Patreon:
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Everyone welcome!

We recently had a studio visit from this little chap ❤️

#studiovisit #artiststudio #artlife

Painting Angels + Online Studio Visit: 5th July | Daniel & Clara Get more from Daniel & Clara on Patreon

New post on Patreon - a peek behind the scenes of our new series of painted photographs + invite to our Patreon-only online studio visit - click below to join 👇

The past in the present and the present as the future past (Avebury Stone #31)

View more: danielandclara.com/The-past-in-...

2024, c-type photograph hand-painted in acrylic, 45.7 x 30.5 cm

We also think of the '&' as being like a serpent, the very same that whispered in Eve's ear and told her to eat the fruit – she was wise enough to listen! We too listen to the whispers from the darkness, from nature, from within.

We think of the artist as a servant of the creative spirit. Our job is to create what only we can create. This manifests differently for each of us and that's why it counts, it's about a myriad of unique perspectives. In this sense '&' is also a symbol of infinite possibilities.

We always use an '&' between our names, never an 'and'.

The '&' is like a magic thread which binds us, it represents the third component of our collaboration which is neither of us individually but the two of us combined.

We've been making mail art now for 7 years!

It all started with this letter, written as a kind of declaration of transformation and rebirth.

Learn more about our mail art projects here: danielandclara.com/Mail-Art

The latest in our new mail art series has been posted and will be arriving with subscribers very soon! 🌿🦉

It's not too late to sign up to receive these, details here: tinyurl.com/bcjdrmjy

Exhibition installation views of Common Ground at The Wilson, Cheltenham, curated by Ben Edge On show 21 February to 31 August 2025 https://www.cheltenhammuseum.org.uk/event/common-ground/

Exhibition installation views of Common Ground at The Wilson, Cheltenham, curated by Ben Edge On show 21 February to 31 August 2025 https://www.cheltenhammuseum.org.uk/event/common-ground/

Exhibition installation views of Common Ground at The Wilson, Cheltenham, curated by Ben Edge On show 21 February to 31 August 2025 https://www.cheltenhammuseum.org.uk/event/common-ground/

Exhibition installation views of Common Ground at The Wilson, Cheltenham, curated by Ben Edge On show 21 February to 31 August 2025 https://www.cheltenhammuseum.org.uk/event/common-ground/

Exhibition installation views of my work in Common Ground at The Wilson, Cheltenham, curated by Ben Edge.
On show 21 February to 31 August 2025
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#art #artexhibition #comonground #ceramic #fineart #contemporaryart #contemporaryceramics #clairepartington

“Blind lichen - static lichen - not seeing and not moving as we see and move. A way of being beyond comprehension to the frenetic beat of our mammalian hearts.”

Second in ‘The Naturalist Letters’ series from @danielandclara.bsky.social explores a colourful and small world bit.ly/4gFnHbc #MailArt

Joseph Bernard (1941–2025) - Ultra Dogme Dean Kavanagh on his friend and fellow filmmaker, the late Joseph Bernard.

I wrote a short piece about my friend, the late great filmmaker and painter, Joseph Bernard.

Thanks to the Ultra Dogme team.

You can read it here:

ultradogme.com/2025/02/28/j...

From our series 'Birds & Beasts of the Countryside', see more here: danielandclara.com/Birds-Beasts

Mail art mail out!

We've just posted the latest Naturalist Letter to the 40 wonderful humans that joined the project, they should be landing on your doormats in the next couple of days.

Join here if you would like to receive monthly mail art from us through 2025: danielandclara.com/Mail-Art-Shop

David Lynch’s world-building didn’t stop at film. His paintings, drawings, and photography expand his eerie, dreamlike storytelling beyond the screen.

 We will explore how his art blurs the boundaries between the familiar and the uncanny.

🗓️ 4 Mar, 7 PM.📍Online & The Southern Belle, Hove 🔗 Free

Old Knobbley in Mistley, taken during a visit to the woods in 2022.

The tree is said to have been a hiding place for witches who were fleeing persecution during the Matthew Hopkins witch hunts.

This picture #15 from our ongoing series of Polaroid diptychs 'From Here To The End'

Getting ready for today's online studio visit, we'll be sharing some new work and thoughts on the connection between dreams and rewilding...

If you'd like to attend, join our patreon: patreon.com/danielandclara

Starts at 1pm GMT via Zoom 🐀🌿

Haar, a gigantic moody painting of a fluctuating dark sea and a ship on the horizon. Incidentally this is my all time favourite type of sky- slab of violet cloud squeezing light into a thin strip.

So next week this painting, the biggest I have ever made at 2 x 3m, is off to the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts for their exhibition Can The Seas Survive Us? Opens 15 March. I’m a bit scared/excited

New post just added to our Patreon about rats, worms and the creative process...
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Also we'll be doing an online studio visit this Saturday for all subscribers – check out Patreon for details about how to join: www.patreon.com/danielandclara 🌿