Claire took us through a fascinating journey from her time at Birmingham Polytechnic where she studied Fine Art and textiles where she graduated in 1991, on through teaching for 20 years and then in 2008/9 her creative journey started.
She started by painting and one of her paintings was accepted at the RBSA.
In 2010 she left teaching and reconnected with the pattern design and printing that she had enjoyed at university. This included a design development and how this went through to the cover for baby wipes.
She explained that she uses stencils, lino cut printing and even potato printing
Claire went on to show development from a painting to a paper collage and final embroidery
Her collage work includes this lovely lampshade
She then explained that through the use of sketchbooks in her travels to Amsterdam and to Malaysia that she selects images and then creates finished pieces from these patterns
She finished her lecture by showing us the work that she had undertaken during her residency at Winterbourne House, Birmingham which unfortunately finished when we went into lockdown and the work was never displayed!! She produced some lovely work based on the gardens there
