"Painting is well suited to ambiguity: a photograph may be deceptive, but once you know what it is the matter is concluded. But there's no fact of the matter in a painting, which Claudia Carr exploits to the full in her pictures derived from small objects arranged in the studio, here restricted to calmly lyrical black, white and ochre."

Paul Carey-Kent highlights Claudia Carr's current solo exhibition 'Opened Ground' at Jessica Carlisle until 3 December. Read the piece here.