About Clare Rowley

I'm glad you're here. Creative is the word that has fit me for more than 61 years.

I am a fine artist working in oil, acrylic, and mixed media. I paint landscapes, wildlife, sea life, and work that holds both the place in front of me and the energy I feel in it. I began painting at 16. In the early 1980s I was a professional reproduction artist at Vanguard Studios in Ventura, California, often sharing a canvas with my brother Charles.

In 1989 I invented Creative Feet. I designed those presser feet so a legally deaf and blind woman could sew on her own, and so people with vision or mobility challenges could sew independently. Those tools grew into a teaching practice that has lasted more than 37 years. I still design, teach, and ship that work from my studio in Durango, Colorado.

I was raised in Southern California. When Creative Feet took off, I moved to the mountains of Arizona to raise my children. I now live and work in Durango.

Writing has always run beside the painting and the inventions. I completed my novel Beyond the Brushstrokes, A Season of Indecision, and that work led me into voice recording. I am also a teacher, speaker, producer, and YouTube creator.

I have seen and heard Spirit since I was 4. I am an Intuitive Psychic Medium and a highly sensitive person. That part of my life includes readings for people who want them. Art collectors do not need a reading to own a painting.

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