After graduating from design school, Claire enjoyed a fulfilling 30+ year career as founder of a notable Bay Area commercial interior design firm. In 2020, she returned to painting, studying with numerous internationally collected artists to hone her studio practice. As an emerging Bay Area artist, her piece, “Westerlies and Windy Seas” was honored as one of 60 works selected from a field of over 5,000 entries in an international juried exhibition and honored in a variety of local Marin and Sonoma juried shows including a solo show at Studio Vittorelli in December 2023.