Living in colour: Claire Cummack in Summer Showcase

Tyger Gallery’s exciting Summer Showcase features the gorgeous work of Claire Cummack.

A joyful life is a colourful life. When you’re happy, colours can feel sharper, and brighter, and more vivid.

Claire Cummack is an artist who skillfully captures the vibrancy of a happy life through modern, colourful, layered and joyful paintings.

Tyger is thrilled to have four of her small works in our Summer Showcase - Patchwork Hills, Down by the River, End of Day, and Hills and Valleys. These four gorgeous pieces feel spontaneous yet intricate, and each tells a story, as Claire explains.

“Hills and Valleys feels to me like the nurturing arms of home, the familiar, the known, the reliable beauty of the everyday,” she says.

“It reminds me to play like a child, discover, seek adventure, enjoy with abandon and return to that ever present sense of home and belonging.”

“Patchwork Hills is a muse about the hills and valleys we traverse through our life. Filled with new adventures, joy, also challenges and obstacles but a beauty through the dips and upward trails if we choose to to see it.”

“Down by the River reflects on how water is my place of peace and solace. A river is an element that is contained yet ever moving, a space that can’t be bound, that finds its own way. It feeds and nurtures all around.

“For me this painting is a happy metaphor for life, an expression of our journey and growth.”

“And End of Day is for me the powerhouse of the series. It feels like the phoenix rising, a rebirth. Blazing red formed from fire that is in sync with nature and the essence of life. Directing the winds of life, to bend to follow the soul's path.”

Claire works from a small studio in Highett, Melbourne surrounded by flowers and birds, and watched over by her Golden Retriever Raffa.

Her gorgeous work is inspired by the life around us, and the life within us.

“ I am inspired by nature, the colours, forms, its transience and also longevity which I use as a metaphor for connection to life,” she says.

“And I am inspired by the human narrative, and the spirit, the joy, the growth, the resilience and the bravery of who we are as we work towards who we want to be.”

Her four works at Tyger are from the artist’s Grounded series, and she hopes they bring art lovers a grounding moment of happiness and joy..

“This series looks at those things that keep us grounded, the little things that feed the spirit, the big things that are the constants and the journey from where you are to where you want to be,” she says.

“I hope people seeing them feel a sense of joy, surprise and delight, that a smile dances across their face and their heart laughs just a little.”

“I hope their mind is captured and drawn in by the detail and that for a moment they find a happy peace and an upbeat feeling.”

Summer Showcase runs until 3 January at Tyger.

Don’t forget we’ve got extended opening hours this December! From this week we’re open Thursdays 12-4, in addition to our normal Friday to Sunday 10-4 opening hours.

We’ll also be open for Yass’ Christmas Late Night Shopping evenings on 14 and 21 December.