Claire Leggett
Claire is a colour, pattern and print loving painter, designer and tutor – living in Birmingham UK.
She has a degree in Fashion & Textiles specialising in Print, and had a long career as a Primary school teacher specialising in Children with Additional Needs. Her talent for teaching and creativity has made her a successful teaching partner at such venues as : Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery; University Birmingham’s Winterbourne Gardens, local art groups, MAC Birmingham in the Textiles, Painting & Drawing and Digital depts; with Mothership CiC delivering community arts to women and their children, with schools in partnership with Walsall Arts for All, with Multistory as a Community Engagement Artist & the NHS Royal Orthopaedic Hospital delivering workshops as part of the Pain Management clinic.
Claire has been creating surface pattern designs as a freelancer for many years for clients such as Huggies and has also been featured in The Pattern Base book by Thames & Hudson. Her work is currently represented by Pattern Bank.
Claire was Artist in Residence at Winterbourne House & Gardens, University of Birmingham in 2019. This forged a longstanding relationship and Claire can regularly be found there teaching short courses in Painting & Drawing and day classes in art and textile art techniques.
Keen to invest in her community, she started running a short course near her home; Painting & Drawing Nature at The Pavilion, Warley Woods.
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TEA TABLE – Original painting
27 July 2025Tea Table is part of a series of paintings looking at Tablescapes and developing unusual compositions. This still life was set up on the floor so I could look down onto it as I painted. The juxtaposed yellow and blue fabrics provide a strong leading line for the eye through the painting and provide a […]
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MAGENTA TULIPS – Giclee Print
This is a GiclĂ©e Print which makes a great alternative to buying an original painting. Magenta Tulips is digitally printed onto Hahnemuhle paper which has the same watercolour tooth as the paper I paint onto so the finished result is very similar. It is printed using Fine Art Trade Guild approved equipment, inks and paper. […]
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ANTHEMIS – Original painting
Painted during my Artist in Residency at University of Birmingham, Winterbourne House & Gardens; it captures the bright array of a variety of Anthemis in the terrace border during a hot July. It’s painted in watercolour gouache on watercolour paper with some gold leaf foiling. 11″ x 8” Gouache watercolour on watercolour paper Sold Unframed […]
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