The Art of the Matter

Via meditative reflections on art, loss, landscape, home and belonging, Claire Steele holds her relationship with her late father up to the light. She explores what it was like to be the child of an artist, and how to retrieve a sense of him from attention to his work. Almost tactile in its language, this is rich with surprise and vitality.

The Art of the Matter is a montage of memory, meditation and creative migration, centred around the idea that art is where we go to discover the things we don’t yet know. As well as its attention to painting, it also engages with the art of managing grief. It offers the reader a way of looking at endurance, both in terms of resilience and everlastingness. Art prompts a kind of expansion in the chest: we become more human, more curious, more alive when we are in the presence of a really great painting. Focusing on the relationship with her painter father, Claire Steele considers his works as posthumous conversations – dynamic, ongoing and full of mysterious surprises. Almost tactile in its language, The Art of the Matter is rich with surprise and vitality.

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