If you've ever stood in front of something vast like a horizon, a forest, a wild stretch of coast and felt something shift inside, then you already know what I'm making.

Nature Changes, So Do We

I make abstract paintings rooted in the wildness of the natural world because I believe that wildness lives inside us too. Not the tame version. The one that knows how to weather a storm and keep going.

I’m Claire, a visual artist living off-grid in Portugal, where nature is untamed, the sky is large and slowness is a practice but heck have I experienced the lows, the breakdowns, constantly feeling like an outsider. I’ve lived with chronic illness and I’ve restarted in five different countries and what I've learned is that the most interesting things happen in the spaces between: between knowing and not knowing, between who you were and who you're becoming and always, always, the power of nature is moving through us. Now I make art from it. Abstract, nature-rooted and layered with feeling.

Creativity isn't something I do. It's how I survive, how I process, how I find my way back to myself and this is exactly why I make art for you.