Janet Clare

Janet Clare is a textile designer, author, quilter, teacher and all round creative thinker. Author of four books and designer of four fabric collections for Moda, she loves to combine appliqué and free motion drawing in her work and regularly hosts talks and workshops on design process and creative techniques.

Describe your approach to teaching:

Being creative is a real joy and I feel that learning a new skill should be too. So I like to teach by encouraging, demonstrating and hopefully, inspiring.

What inspires your own work?

A lot of my work is inspired by nature. I also take delight in words, lovely phrases and children's purity of thought and the joy they find in the mundane.

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