Working within the local community on projects focused on well being and creativity. Hazlehurst Studios main community project is 'Old Town Bloom' which is a community garden that I created in 2014 as a 'Pop Up' garden. Old Town Bloom is now in its eighth year and is a thriving community garden project, led by volunteers and the local community.

Claire started her creative self taught life funded by the Prince’s Trust Enterprise programme, which allowed her to expand and gain a studio space at Hazlehurst Studios. Her body of work at that time was illustrative, for a commercial audience. Being at the studios exposed Claire to different art practices and allowed her to delve into community art participation, which she gained a passion for. A temporary pop up garden project, has turned into fully involved award winning art and garden space, pulling in inspiration from the industrial heritage and culture that Runcorn has to offer. This has led Claire to explore new bodies work based on the materials that surround her on a daily basis, which are botanical. A fascination in how these materials can be preserved and used has developed, as well as other heritage artisan skills such as gilding work. The garden project is a testament to the found object and this has provoked Claire to work smaller and produce artwork in assemblage form, which encapsulates the materials she works with on a daily basis, in a much smaller scale