An eclectic Welsh artist with a wide and varied skills base and a love of experimentation, Claire strives to create unique work while pushing herself to try new materials and techniques. Despite her desire to challenge herself with unfamiliar methods, her work often finds itself grounded in the traditional, as she is drawn to more ‘hands on’ techniques such as printmaking, embroidery, bookmaking and papermaking. Claire works on these elements with her own contemporary twist, often combining them with the newest available technology or utilising digital editing tools.
Fascinated by the haptic qualities of physical materials, she explores their textures and tactility. Using her research and thesis as a foundation, her work celebrates the perfect imperfections of the human hand. This is an effort to become a gesture of sincerity that is reinforced by the tacit ideas of physical closeness derived from the handmade, and her work seeks to satisfy a need for direct experience in an increasingly remote and digital world.
Claire believes that the contemporary arts are largely about “knowing what to do when the rules run out or there are no rules in the first place” - Matthew Crawford.
Fascinated by the haptic qualities of physical materials, she explores their textures and tactility. Using her research and thesis as a foundation, her work celebrates the perfect imperfections of the human hand. This is an effort to become a gesture of sincerity that is reinforced by the tacit ideas of physical closeness derived from the handmade, and her work seeks to satisfy a need for direct experience in an increasingly remote and digital world.
Claire believes that the contemporary arts are largely about “knowing what to do when the rules run out or there are no rules in the first place” - Matthew Crawford.
My work is published in Bloomsbury's book!
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Little old me playing with some bubbles!
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