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Updated March 20th 2010.

Claire paints and teaches around the Blackmore Vale and Cranborne Chase in North Dorset. Her work is primarily oils. The backbone of her work used to be portraits, but in recent years Claire has enjoyed working from the landscape around her and finds that this now employs most of her painting time. She also loves the freedom of painting in Watercolours. One of Claire's former Tutors was dismayed to see her sketch work in Watercolours, he told her it was 'old-fashioned and rigid'. She could not disagree more.

Claire balances 2 1/2 days teaching by being in the shed or on a hillside with her own work and combining painting and being outdoors is when she feels most at one with the world.

Since childhood, Claire has sketched the hills of Okeford Fitzapine and the people around her. The only thing that has changed is the mileage of inspiration that now compels her. From Win Green to Stourhead, the lambing sheds to the beaches of Cephalonia, her childrens faces to Bob Dylan!

This year Claire is venturing into painting holidays, beginning with a trip to Normandy this June.