Clare's daily walks with her dog have fuelled a fascination with the ever changing plant and bird life in the Buckinghamshire countryside and resulted in a collection of paintings documenting the natural world.
Using highly pigmented watercolours on 100% cotton paper, each painting goes through a process of careful colour selection to ensure each has a unique colour palette of its own to match the mood, season and nature depicted. Working expressively, using large brushes dripping with water, colours are allowed to mingle and create new and often unpredictable effects. Her use of drawing gum providing an underlying structure to control this loose effect. More recently this has involved gilding with gold leaf to spotlight the birds often depicted in her work
Clare has exhibited with the Royal Watercolour society at the Bankside Gallery, at the Green and Stone Gallery, Chelsea, and was shortlisted for the Royal Institute of Watercolour exhibition at the Mall Galleries. Clare is an International Watercolour Masters 2026 winner and will exhibit alongside the world's watercolour masters in the elite IWM exhibition next May at the beautiful Lilleshall Hall, Shropshire.
Winner of Wraptious competition 2024, Clare’s painting are available to purchase on a range of homeware items. http://www.wraptious.com
Greetings cards and notelets are available to purchase from http://www.lovefromtheartist.com
Further watercolours and oil paintings are available to view at Sota Gallery, Witney, Obsidian Art Gallery, Woburn Art Gallery, Vitreus Art Gallery and Studio and her website http://www.claretebboth.com
Clare teaches workshops at Vitreus Art Gallery, Bell Plantation Garden Centre Towcester NN12 6GX, Freya Jones Gallery Buckingham and at Preston Bissett Nurseries.
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Commissions welcome.
