Claire was born in Harrow on the outskirts of London in 1972.

She moved to Witley in Surrey with her parents and then settled in Hampshire where she completed her formal education. Claire first studied art at Hampshire’s ‘Basingstoke Technical College’ and went on to gain a degree in fine art at ‘West Surrey College of Art and Design’.

Claire is also deeply interested in photographic montage and has previously exhibited her work at the Allen Gallery in Hampshire. Her work is strongly related to themes of natural beauty that is in abundance and found in the everyday mundane, the intertwining of beauty caught up in the syncopation of everyday life. Her floral depiction of this is demonstrated in her work. The striking compositions crafted with marks generated in charcoal and water colour would be considered individual by most, but her work carries a tempo not unlike music. These, her latest works are dedicated to the fact that our whole genetic making runs in ever varying frequencies, a dynamic dimensional rhythm that is demonstrated in every aspect of nature down to the very smallest micro organisms. It has the flow of music and a vibrancy of life.