​Engaged with landscape subjects such as industrial structures, monumental buildings, suburban streets and the relationship between built and natural worlds, her works emerge from an autobiographical perspective, exploring themes such as introspection, solitude, strength and fragility.

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With a heightened sensitivity to colour influenced by her experience of having synaesthesia, she is interested in using colour to express mood and atmosphere as well as asking broader questions.  How do we decide what is beautiful or meaningful? Can we find solace or significance in spaces deemed utilitarian, ugly or remote. And how might they be a metaphor for the self, echoing human concerns such as shelter, history, memory, and ageing?

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Using a combination of painting and printmaking techniques, her recent work plays with these themes allowing pieces with layered histories to develop.

 

Clare's solo exhibition at Colonnade House, Worthing in 2025 was a vibrant showcase of printmaking and painting with a deeply personal and intuitive use of colour.

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Her work is held in private collections in the UK, USA, Canada and Hong Kong.

 

She is also an art tutor teaching popular workshops,both face-to-face and online and covering a range of art media and techniques.

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Solo Exhibitions

• Wired For Colour, Colonnade House, Worthing June 2025

• Colonnade House, Worthing 2024
   

Selected Group Exhibitions

• Guest artist at Chalk Gallery, Lewes April & May 2026

• Sussex Contemporary, Newhaven 2025

• ING Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London 2025

• Landscape Open, Salisbury Museum, 2025

• The Land We Live Within, Ditchling 2025

• Director's Cut, Woolwich Contemporary Art Fair, 2025

• Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition, London 2025

• Cherry Tree Bungalow, Brighton Festival May 2025

• Lions & Unicorns, White Conduit Projects, London 2025

• Guildford House Open, Guildford 2024

• Sussex Contemporary, Newhaven 2024

• Bip-Art Open and print exchange, Brighton 2024

• Claremont Hotel Hove, Brighton Festival 2024

• ING Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London 2023

• Sussex Contemporary, i360 Brighton 2023

• 'For The Love of Print' Sussex Women Printmakers at the Grange, Rottingdean 2023

• 'Serendipity', Happenstance Gallery, London 2023

• Claremont Hotel Hove, Brighton Festival 2023

• 358 Ditchling Road, Brighton Festival 2022

• Man vs Machine, Bare Bone Gallery, Hastings 2022

• The Natural Eye, Mall Galleries, London 2019

• Westmoreland Landscape Prize, Rheged Centre, Penrith 2019

• The Printhouse, Brighton Festival 2018 & 2019

• ‘The Other House’ – BMECP Centre, Brighton, 2018

• Inkspot Press, Brighton Festival 2017

• Photo Fringe, Claremont Hotel, Brighton 2016

• East Sussex Open, Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne July 2016

• Claremont Hotel Hove, Brighton Festival 2016

• Bip-Art Open and print exchange, Brighton 2013 - 2015

• Affordable Art Fair, Battersea Park London 2010 - 2014

 

Education

BA (Hons) Graphic Design / Illustration – Bristol Polytechnic (1984 – 1987)

MA Communication Arts – Royal College of Art, London (1987 – 1989)