Clare Robinson

Clare is a watercolour artist and textile designer with a love for painterly and softly hand-drawn images. She grew up in Cheshire, and her love of flowers and fine detail was apparent at a young age. She studied at Manchester College of Art & Design, then graduated with a BA (Hons) in Textile Design from Loughborough College of Art and Design.Working for menswear and womenswear brands, London Savile Row as a product developer/buyer, and then Samsung Textiles Division, California, developing fashion prints & fabrics brought her closer to her passion for creating and developing bespoke textiles and working with textile manufacturing. Then taking up a creative design role at the iconic British Heritage Brand, Mackintosh, Glasgow, brought her to Scotland.Since establishing her own studio in Perthshire, Scotland, she has collaborated with Johnstons of Elgin, designing a range of bespoke printed home products and Liberty of London. Utilizing her experience in creating and developing products and knowledge of printing, she uses luxury natural fabrics to create beautiful home products.Her watercolours and illustrations are full of delicate, subtle colours, with a hand-drawn & sketchy feel to them. Interiors and magazines seem the natural choice to display her work, with a collection of paintings & drawings at deVOL kitchens showroom in New York, illustrating for Liz Earle Wellbeing Magazine, and exhibiting in galleries in Scotland.Clare runs wellbeing workshops and art retreats throughout the UK and collaborates with some wonderful companies and charities, including Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh, National Trust for Scotland, Maggie's, Capability Scotland, and Horatio's Garden at Queen Elizabeth University Hospital, Glasgow Spinal Unit, providing creative and therapeutic workshops for gentle rehabilitation and recovery.