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.