Blog

Black Primulas

Spring flowers are my biggest inspiration.

About Me

Mary Sumner 1957 – 2016

I saw this book for sale recently and on buying it I discovered that the artist Mary Sumner had very sadly passed away: 1957 – 2016. I was really miserable – she was such a talent and to think there will no longer be anymore of her wonderful art in the world put a cloud […]

Birmingham art classes

If you hang out on my other social media or get my newsletter at all then you will already know how much I flipping love teaching art and running art groups. I currently run two: one called Painting & Drawing Flowers at Winterbourne House & Garden on a Tuesday morning and on a Wednesday morning […]

Adrian Berg

Adrian Berg is a recent discovery of mine. He was a painter living and working in 1929-2011. One of his first big bodies of work was the view from his flat window of Regents Park which he painted multiple times. These paintings show variations in playing with colour, pattern and composition and interested me because […]

Japonica

The other day I came home from teaching my class at Winterbourne House & Gardens with some lovely Japonica blossoms that they had cut for us to paint. I spent a lovely, soul-repairing quiet hour painting these and catching up with The Archers. You may not know that I’ve been selling my surface pattern design licences on @patternbank for […]

6 month catch-up

Oh poor blog – I do mean to love you more. I always intend to keep you full of what I’m currently up to, the things I’ve made, the events I want to remember and then (because you’re old fashioned and not a quick app on my phone) I put it off or forget to […]

Newsletter

Number 4 has been mailed out today – did you know I have a newsletter? Want to sign up? It’s old school analogue! All you have to do is email me at: hello@claireleggett.co.uk and I’ll add you to the list.

Marigolds and Poppies Painting

All my recent trips looking at art inspired me to paint A Picture. That, combined with all the homegrown garden flowers I’ve got like these amazing Chiffon Californian Poppies and a new pot from Bruges to put them in. It feels like a long time since I’ve wanted to Make Art and it feels good […]