Clare has expressed her passion for colour & visual art in many different ways over the past 20 years. A career as fashion designer, florist and interior designer along with travel and living in the UK and USA has constantly stimulated new creative adventures and ever expanding artistic expressions.
She studied Japanese painting, Stencilling and Decorative wall paint finishes in detail and worked in that field for 4 years in London and Boston before returning to Sydney. She trained at the International School of Colour and Design and achieved a Visual Arts Dipolma.
In 1996 she co-founded a Colour and Design consultancy, Colourmark Design in Sydney. As well as working as an Interior Designer for both commercial and domestic clients she has designed large wall murals for public spaces.
Nature, environmental issues, feelings and emotions are her constant inspiration. Every day brings new connections, disconnections and new possibilities, ideas and projects. She is excited to share her way of looking at the world with others and is particularly concerned with the amount of waste of natural resources and is constantly exploring opportunities to re-use and recycle these items in a creative way.
Since moving to Byron Bay in 2003 she has been actively involved with community and environmental issues. Clare says “My landscape work attempts to connect with the essence and spirit of the land as a result of my feelings and interaction with it. I seek to engage the viewer and invite them into my work to investigate and merge their own landscape memories and to thereby create a new feeling within the viewer”.
In 2009 Clare was one of five artists to receive a “highly commended” for her entry in the Country Energy Landscape painting Prize. In 2010 she was selected as a finalist for the biennial Redlands Art prize.
In 2010-11 she completed an Art Therapy Diploma at the Phoenix Institute in Melbourne and will be offering workshops for adults and children using Art for insight and personal development in 2012.
