Claire Benn is a UK-based textile artist, author, and educator with more than 20 years of international experience. Before returning fully to her art in the late 1990s, she worked as a freelance training and development consultant, coaching people one-to-one, a background that still shapes how she mentors other artists today.
In 2013, encountering Agnes Martin's work gave Claire permission to make the quiet, reductive art she'd always been drawn to. Her practice now centres on raw earth pigment, some bought, some foraged from her garden, her walks, and places that matter to her. Text has been part of her work just as long, inspired first by her father's calligraphy and later by artists like Denise Lach and Brody Neuenschwander.
Claire's teaching is grounded in self-awareness, confidence, and building a creative habit that lasts. In Out of This Earth, you'll work directly with earth pigments to root your practice in the ground beneath you. In Beyond Technique, her coaching background comes to the fore as she guides you through refining your mindset, self-critique, and voice. And in TEXTure, you'll explore handwriting as art, including a technique for making cloth behave more like paper.
Whatever draws you to her courses, you're in the hands of an artist who's spent decades finding her own voice, and loves helping others find theirs.
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