Claire Mynott

Claire Mynott is a Lowestoft-based artist. People are usually her starting point: she is drawn to relationships — social and familial — and to the desire to break free from constraints and find other ways “to be” in a world full of rules. She works from life and from the figure, taking her subjects from her own experience, including her father’s progressive illness and the turmoil of the workplace. Her long bond with the town runs through her work: “Lowestoft forms the backdrop to my life,” she says. “The town is like a parent; an attachment is formed, and that fact infuses my art.” Of her practice she adds: “I have always worked from life and am keen to draw from the figure … the process of drawing and painting presses buttons that make me feel alive.” Her debut solo exhibition, Out of Office (303 Projects, 2026), gathered a year of paintings, drawings and prints made while she worked as an admin assistant — “what I see are spreadsheets.”