After graduating from design school and becoming a certified interior designer, Claire enjoyed a fulfilling 30+ year career as founder of a notable San Francisco Bay Area commercial design firm (RMA.studio). In 2020, she transferred her business to the next generation of partners and returned to her visual art roots, becoming a full time painter.

Claire studied with a number of internationally collected artists and focused on developing her studio practice. Most of her paintings find their roots in nature and include abstracted images from daily walks near the water, in the hills and from life on an old boat docked in Sausalito she shared with her husband.

As an emerging Bay Area artist, her piece, “Westerlies and Windy Seas” from the “Paint the Boat” series was honored as one of 60 works selected from a field of over 5,000 entries in an international juried exhibition (2023). She has had 2 solo shows (2024) in the SF Bay Area and participated in many juried exhibitions.