Friends, join us for this special event on Sat 29th Nov at Firstsite gallery to celebrate 15 years of making art together! We'll be giving a talk about art, films and our creative adventures followed by a q&a with Amanda Geitner from EAAF 🎟️ Tickets + details here: shorturl.at/uWaEO

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 www.eventbrite.com/e/mapping-th... #Talk

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

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 www.eventbrite.com/e/tactilism-... #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: www.patreon.com/danielandclara

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: www.patreon.com/danielandclara Everyone welcome!

We recently had a studio visit from this little chap ❤️ #studiovisit #artiststudio #artlife

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 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 my work in Common Ground at The Wilson, Cheltenham, curated by Ben Edge. On show 21 February to 31 August 2025 www.cheltenhammuseum.org.uk/event/common... #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

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 🐀🌿

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... 🐀 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 🌿

The past in the present and the present as the future past (Avebury Stone #16) 2024, c-type photograph hand-painted in acrylic, 45.7 x 30.5 cm

On Tuesday we dived deep into @danielandclara.bsky.social work where landscapes become living stories, bodies merge with environments, and creativity blurs boundaries between photography, film, and pure imagination. 🎨✨ Do check out their work - you are in for a treat! #Landscape #Artists #Rec

“These ancient weapons have been protecting the hedgerow’s secrets from the likes of us for millennia and show no signs of giving up now.” The first of the new mail art series from @danielandclara.bsky.social has dropped, with ‘The Naturalist Letters’ bit.ly/4gFnHbc

Some current reading for new projects. Thinking about the history of nature study as an intellectual pursuit but also the subjective embodied experience of being out in the field face to the ground staring into the long grass or the depths of a pond as a way to glimpse reality beyond the human frame

We're giving a talk about our work in Brighton next week at @explodingappendix.bsky.social also streaming online Free, book here: tinyurl.com/b5ry3mt4

Photograph of the Great Stones at Avebury, Wiltshire, by Sir Benjamin Stone, 1896

Would you like to receive mail art from us? We're just about to start a new series called The Naturalist Letters, a series of 12 letters sent monthly through 2025. Anyone can sign up to receive these, only a few days left to join! Find out more: tinyurl.com/bcjdrmjy

I’m taking part in an Online Studio Sale hosted by The Auction Collective, selling older work from 2019-22 to make room for new work, hooray! Starts 30 January 12pm Ends 5 February 2pm Link in bio to take a peek at the work on offer, and register for the sale.

We've now been making mail art since 2018! Anyone can sign up to receive monthly letters from us, join here: tinyurl.com/bcjdrmjy 2025's series is The Naturalist Letters, which explores ideas of wildness and the entangled destinies of humans & animals on a former farm as it becomes rewilded...

A couple of things seen on recent London trips: Love the two William Cobbing shows currently open at Canopy Collections and his Selfridges commission Totally blown away by the Markus Lüpertz exhibition at Michael Werner Gallery - great paintings!

John Constable's Haywain oil sketch in close-up A short response to seeing the Constable exhibition at the National Gallery: tinyurl.com/5x5rfh4m

From Here To The End #37 from our our ongoing series of polaroid diptychs

Do follow these two incredibly inventive artists, their work is full of heart, intrigue and weirdness, which is, of course, the best type of art.

New mail art project just launched! Anyone can join and receive monthly letters from us throughout 2025. This year's theme is wildness and rewilding in the landscape and the imagination! Find out more: tinyurl.com/mpev7xt