Claude 6A is a complex screen-print using a four colour benday dot system, followed by a fifth layer of yellow and then a final layer of screen-printed varnish. The limited edition was made for Hannah Brown‘s solo show, The Unseen Landscape at PayneShurvell. The title refers to a Claude glass (or black mirror), a small mirror, slightly convex in shape, with its surface tinted a dark colour. Used by artists, travellers and connoisseurs of landscape and landscape painting. Black Mirrors have the effect of abstracting the subject reflected in it from its surroundings, reducing and simplifying the colour and tonal range of scenes and scenery to give them a painterly quality.

Working within and against the omnipresent legacy of the English landscape tradition, Hannah Brown searches for quiet, often overlooked places with a particular type of beauty, and makes intimate oil paintings that at first appear archaic. In a genre traditionally dominated by men, Brown is interested in not only the historical nature of landscape painting but more importantly the legacy it has left behind. As our relationship to the countryside continues to gently shift, one element appears to remain constant; a lament for the loss of something that previously seemed to exist, albeit predominately in our imagination.