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I have completed a little body of work from my Hebrides trip this year. If you would like a piece they are all listed below in order of size, with prices and UK postage included – postage will be worked out for any sales abroad once you have emailed the destination.
Please email me at hello@claireleggett.co.uk and I will send payment details 🙂 Thank you x
BALRANALD 10cm x 7.5 cm watercolour on watercolour board £15 in UK p&p.
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FIELD 10cm x 7.5 cm watercolour on watercolour board £15 in UK p&p.
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DUBH-LOCHAN 10cm x 7.5 cm watercolour on watercolour board £15 in UK p&p.
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PORTREE, SKYE 6×4″ watercolour on watercolour paper £20 in UK p&p.
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THE BRAES, SKYE 6×4″ watercolour on watercolour paper £20 in UK p&p.
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AHMORE, UIST 6×4″ watercolour on watercolour paper £20 in UK p&p.
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LOCH MADDY. SOLD 6×4″ watercolour on watercolour paper £20 in UK p&p.
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LOCH MASSAIG. 6×4″ watercolour on watercolour paper £20 in UK p&p.
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SOUTH UIST 6×4″ watercolour on watercolour paper £20 in UK p&p.
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UIST INTERIOR 1 6×4″ watercolour on watercolour paper £20 in UK p&p.
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UP TO LOCH MAASAIG 6×4″ watercolour on watercolour paper £20 in UK p&p.
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SEILEBOST 10.5 x 27.5 cm. watercolour on watercolour paper £30 in UK p&p.
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It hardly seems it but it’s been 10 years since I officially started my self-employed adventure.
I finished studying in 1989 with a degree in Fashion & Textiles; specialising in Printed Textiles.
But that career never really got off the ground before I found myself looking at something steadier and as I love kids, that was training to be a teacher.
As a primary school teacher I eventually specialised my role into teaching children with Additional Needs and helping their parents to find their way through all the support services available.
Fast forward a good few years; I had two of my own kids, I supported my husband in setting up his own business and had been juggling the Working Mother role p/t for a long while. When the prospect of federating with other schools ( this also meant helping them with their work load) came along I knew my time in teaching was done.
I had, for a while, found myself using my non-working Friday to paint as a way to manage the stress of my role as SENCO in school.
At first I was very rusty after such a long hiatus but the more I painted the more I re-found my skills and re-discovered the joy of a creative life.
The balance between teaching for work and painting for fun gradually inched along until the moment came when I let it tip over into Painting for Work – and here we are 10 years later.
I have tried a lot of things during the last decade; I learnt how to use a computer to create surface pattern designs (when I left college we cut and stuck) I have had agents sell those designs here and abroad, I have visited a lot of local (and not-so) galleries and had my work exhibited and sold, I have attended art fairs and exhibited and experienced the highs and lows of being amongst other painters wanting a sale, I have run countless workshops for children and adults focussed on offering creative experience and improvement. I’ve tried and failed and tried and suceeded. It’s been a patchwork.
An artists life is a complicated one – you have to hustle, have many eggs in your basket of offerings, never take it personally and get back up again and again.
I have printed, sewn, painted and designed pretty much everyday and been all the happier for it.
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At this 10 year juncture things have changed yet again and I am re-making what a ‘normal’ week might look like for me but I now know from past experience that things always develop in their own way if you always say yes to opportunities and allow for a little magic too 💫
Happy Christmas to you and thank you for being here to read this. 2021 was the year that made me want to re-kindle my blog in a meaningful way. With connections, face-to-face workshops and just the equilibrium of life stretched thin due to Covid, it has been reassuring to find this quiet corner and a small interested audience still.
Have yourself a very merry Christmas xox
Here is a ‘holding post’ or Studio sale stock cupboard for the remaining pieces from July’s studio sale. There are loads of pieces -still life, landscape, florals, teacups etc at really good prices.
What to do: please scroll down and have a look through.
Please email me:
hello@claireleggett.co.uk saying what you want to buy and I will send payment details to you.
Standard letter postage within the UK is included.
Please email for postage quotes outside the UK or if you choose to upgrade the postage to tracked/ins (in or out of the UK) and I will send you a postage quote.
Most photos show the whole paper size (inc the brown tape I use to stretch the paper prior to painting) so that you can see what additional space there is for framing.
Sizes given are for the whole framable size of the paper – some paintings are placed within a bigger sized piece of paper which you can cut into to frame – I have given the largest sizes.
There is a very small but sweet exhibition of some of the Scottish Colourists work from The Fleming Collection on show at the Barber Institute atm.
Peploe Green Sea, Iona
Peploe, Cadell, Fergusson and Hunter were four friends who shared the same ideas about colour and style and were inspired by French painters experimenting with capturing light through colour.
Cadell Carnations
They were inspired by The Fauves (which is of course why I like their work) and they also favoured bright colours, unmixed pigments and strong solid colours.
They termed their use of colour and obvious brushstrokes as ‘Rhythm’ to explain the patterning and texture on the canvas.
Hunter Peonies in a Chinese Vase
You can forget about places when you live near them and this trip reminded me that the Barber Institutes permanent collection is also worth a visit.
The Rhythm of Light exhibition is on till 13th May 2018.
I’m finishing this week with a big painting under my belt.
I have been slowly working my way through my French countryside inspiration (that’s dating back to last summer; that’s how slowly!)
I’ve fairly recently discovered Liquitex Heavy Body Acrylics and I. AM. IN. LOVE. I love the texture of them when painting with it and matt feel.
I love using acrylics for textural painting as you can layer up colours and textures with different mark making tools which frees up the painting process and allows for some unexpected bonuses (happy accidents!)
Although it is big and took some time (and many layers) I really enjoyed the process and love the finished piece – Patchwork Countryside.
Off for a G & T now – wishing you a great weekend.
The Alhambra wouldn’t have lived up to expectations if there weren’t a few tiles to inspire some pattern designing.
And as you can see I wasn’t disappointed in the least.
Miles and miles of them. These are the survivors of a hard edit!
Endless colour and pattern inspiration. 
I have just begun to scratch the surface of the design inspiration they prompt.
Here’s a little peek at some pattern WIP which has to remain a little bit secret 😉
Happy New Year one and all – I wish you a happy, healthy and fulfilling one. I got this new mug for Christmas- it’ll help keep me focused for 2016 while I sip my tea 😉
Here at home it’s been a busy time of visiting open days for prospective universities – we’ve covered some miles in the car and on foot!
Last week we did Oxford and Cambridge back to back – two fantastic cities covered at breakneck speed but the weather was lovely and if you follow me on Instagram you’ll see some snaps I took.
And speaking of Instagram, I had seen from someones feed that the Natural History Museum on the Oxford University grounds was worth a visit and so I ducked out and did just that and boy was I pleased.
Apart from the usual bones and stuffed creatures they had fantastic displays of butterflies and insects which is what I had wanted to find.
I wouldn’t want to encounter any of these without plate-glass between us but they are fascinating and endlessly inspiring for design work.
I snapped so many pictures that I had to delete all my music files off my phone just to make enough space to continue – that’s dedication!
Just through the Natural History museum is the Pitt Rivers museum.
The museum began when Lieutenant-General Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers (long enough name?) gave a collection of around 30,000 objects to the University of Oxford in 1884 – you can read about it here.
It is an eclectic collection of objects to say the least but it did put a smile on my face because some of it is just so random.
I loved the textiles (sadly it was very dark so the photos aren’t great).
And as if all that wasn’t enough fun, imagine my joy at finding ‘my’ book in the gift shop 😊
Hard to believe that I started this painting twenty days ago at the 2015 Patchings Festival as part of my demonstrating.
I never find it easy to paint whilst being watched, but people love to see how you go about your work and it makes the event unique and is a great talking point. So I was slower than in normal studio conditions and I also set myself quite the challenge putting pink flowers on pink floral, throwing in some lace-work and tackling that composition from above.
I didn’t get it finished at the festival so in-between travelling up and down the country looking at University open days with my youngest, I’ve been fiddling with this.
Gonna call it done now; successes, flaws and all!
Paint Drops Keep Falling 