

She regularly visits schools and enjoys drawing for children.Ĭlaire's new title 'The Best Bit of Daddy's Day' will be published in June 2016. In 2007 Claire wrote her own course on writing and illustrating picture books which she has been teaching ever since, and now at the House of Illustration. Here Claire produced her first dummy book for Small Florence, which was then published and started her dream career as an author illustrator.

She moved to London in 1995 and stumbled through many different jobs until she studied children's illustration at Putney School of Art. she has always loved drawing from an early age and remembers being asked by her school mates to draw rabbits for them! After school she studied Fine Art at the Kent Institute of Art and Design in Canterbury where she achieved a BA degree in Painting.

In 2007 Claire wrote her own course on writing and illustrating picture books which she has been teaching ever since, and now at the House of Illustrat Claire was born in Bath, Wiltshire and moved to Kent when she was six. Claire was born in Bath, Wiltshire and moved to Kent when she was six.
