**Clare Doveton** is a contemporary American painter currently based in Kansas. After earning her BFA in Painting from Parsons School of Design in New York City and working for years in urban environments, she moved to the midwest, where the expansive sky and land reshaped her work. Her paintings reflect her own quiet attunement to the passage of time, celestial movements, and a deep connection to light.

The horizon appears to divide earth from sky, yet no such line exists. I find myself drawn to places and ideas that challenge the notion of separation - the prairies of the midwest, where you soak in such massive distances, Dark Sky parks around the country to watch the Milky Way rise, sitting long meditation retreats in the woods. All these experiences remind me how much of the world is shaped by relationships we cannot always see.

Light dissolves edges, shifts distance, and changes our experience of what we believe we are seeing. I build my paintings through translucent layers of oil, allowing light to shine through to the surface.

I want the work I create to offer a place to linger. To look long enough that certainty softens, light becomes the subject, and the boundaries we often assume begin to feel less absolute.