Clare is the author, illustrator and pattern designer behind popular Instagram account @claretheresegray. She creates artworks for textiles, paper craft and fabric collections, packaging and homewares. Inspired by the natural environment of her rural Hampshire surroundings, she lives and works on a farm with her husband and young family. After studying Painting at Art School in Norwich she went on to the Drawing Year at the Royal Drawing School where she focused on imaginative and observational drawing & printmaking before launching a freelance design career.
Aside from bespoke artworks, she takes on project-based collaborations with like-minded companies. Her first book, 'Painting Nature with Clare: Create Beautiful Gouache Motifs of the Garden, Countryside, Sea, River and Forest' with Page Street Publishing is being released in December 2021 and is available to pre-order now here.
She has a passion for lino printing on paper and fabric, and loves spending time in galleries drawing ceramics and paintings. Otherwise she can often be found enjoying the English countryside with her family, growing and collecting flowers to dry and, of course, drawing and painting every single day.
You'll find a glimpse of her studio life almost daily on Instagram @claretheresegray
Connect with your own artwork using the hashtag #paintwithclare
Connect with your own artwork using the hashtag #paintwithclare
SELECTED CLIENTS & COLLABORATIONS
HABITAT/ SAINSBURYS
DORLING KINDERSLEY SOLLY BABY LITTLE, BROWN BOOK GROUP TRADER JOES HEATHCOTE & IVORY THE RHS (FOR H&I) WINDHAM FABRICS DESIGN HOUSE GREETINGS |
PAGE STREET PUBLISHING
TASTE OF LONDON RSPB (FOR ROY KIRKHAM LTD) UK GREETINGS WINSOR & NEWTON ARTEZA CANVAS LAMPS PLAIN JANE CRAFT CONSORTIUM |