Clare-Louise Battersby
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Clare-Louise Battersby is a multi-disciplinary artist, designer, and creative facilitator based in Moray, just outside the Cairngorms, and is listed on the Creative Cairngorms Directory. Her practice is an evolving conversation with place—drawing on biophilic design, folklore, sustainability, and heritage craft.
Working across oils, textiles, encaustic wax, photography, and foraged natural materials, Clare-Louise’s work is rooted in slowness, sensory experience, and deep attention. She combines traditional hand-stitching with experimental mark-making, layering, and assemblage to explore the tension between fragility and resilience—both in the landscape and within ourselves. Moss, lichen, bark, soil, stone, and water are recurring presences in her work—not just as inspiration but often physically embedded in her pieces.
Recent work has focused on the interplay of permanence and impermanence: the translucency of wax, the weight of oil, and the delicacy of thread offer contrasting textures that ask the viewer to pause, look closer, and lean into the quiet. These layered surfaces invite connection through touch, memory, and intuition.
Clare-Louise believes that creativity is a form of care—both for self and planet. Her practice is an act of restoration, of reconnection. Through immersive exhibitions, mindful workshops, and collaborative projects with local makers and landscapes, she creates spaces where others are encouraged to slow down, reconnect, and reflect.
Whether in the studio or out in the wild, her creative process is a grounded, intentional response to place—rooted in respect, driven by curiosity, and always deeply entangled with the land.
Working across oils, textiles, encaustic wax, photography, and foraged natural materials, Clare-Louise’s work is rooted in slowness, sensory experience, and deep attention. She combines traditional hand-stitching with experimental mark-making, layering, and assemblage to explore the tension between fragility and resilience—both in the landscape and within ourselves. Moss, lichen, bark, soil, stone, and water are recurring presences in her work—not just as inspiration but often physically embedded in her pieces.
Recent work has focused on the interplay of permanence and impermanence: the translucency of wax, the weight of oil, and the delicacy of thread offer contrasting textures that ask the viewer to pause, look closer, and lean into the quiet. These layered surfaces invite connection through touch, memory, and intuition.
Clare-Louise believes that creativity is a form of care—both for self and planet. Her practice is an act of restoration, of reconnection. Through immersive exhibitions, mindful workshops, and collaborative projects with local makers and landscapes, she creates spaces where others are encouraged to slow down, reconnect, and reflect.
Whether in the studio or out in the wild, her creative process is a grounded, intentional response to place—rooted in respect, driven by curiosity, and always deeply entangled with the land.
Clare-Louise Battersby is a multi-disciplinary artist, designer, and creative facilitator based in Moray. Her practice spans oils, textiles, encaustic wax, photography, and foraged natural materials, rooted in biophilic design, folklore, sustainability, and heritage craft. Through slow, tactile processes such as hand-stitching, layering, and assemblage, she explores the fragility and resilience of both landscapes and the human experience.
She is Chair of North East Open Studios, leading strategy, creative development, and mentoring for one of Scotland’s largest open studio events, supporting over 300 artists annually. Clare-Louise also runs her design and consultancy business, Biophilic Design and Art, connecting creative practice with wellbeing, sustainability, nature and mental wealth advocacy.
Her recent three-month solo exhibition Observations of an Incomer (2024–2025) explored identity, landscape, and belonging in North East Scotland through encaustic and mixed media. She currently has a solo exhibition running at Logie Steading and had three proposals accepted for the Cairngorms National Park - Pledge | Process | Planet (Open Space Gallery, May 2025): a solo textile installation, a collaboration with Yellow Broom using natural waste materials, and a CPD workshop on biophilic art and design.
Clare-Louise regularly facilitates creative wellbeing workshops. She helped establish the first Grantown Open Studios event, where she participated as an artist and was commissioned to design all branding and promotional materials.
Her work invites reconnection—with the land, with materials, and with the deeper stories held in place, process, and memory.
She is Chair of North East Open Studios, leading strategy, creative development, and mentoring for one of Scotland’s largest open studio events, supporting over 300 artists annually. Clare-Louise also runs her design and consultancy business, Biophilic Design and Art, connecting creative practice with wellbeing, sustainability, nature and mental wealth advocacy.
Her recent three-month solo exhibition Observations of an Incomer (2024–2025) explored identity, landscape, and belonging in North East Scotland through encaustic and mixed media. She currently has a solo exhibition running at Logie Steading and had three proposals accepted for the Cairngorms National Park - Pledge | Process | Planet (Open Space Gallery, May 2025): a solo textile installation, a collaboration with Yellow Broom using natural waste materials, and a CPD workshop on biophilic art and design.
Clare-Louise regularly facilitates creative wellbeing workshops. She helped establish the first Grantown Open Studios event, where she participated as an artist and was commissioned to design all branding and promotional materials.
Her work invites reconnection—with the land, with materials, and with the deeper stories held in place, process, and memory.
- Clare-Louise Battersby
- Good Goddess of Brilliance
- Mixed Media
- Clare-Louise Battersby
- Firebird and the Magic Feathers
- Mixed Media
- Clare-Louise Battersby
- Panoptes' Peacock
- Mixed Media
- Clare-Louise Battersby
- Oisin's Hare
- Mixed Media
- Clare-Louise Battersby
- King O'the Spunkies
- Mixed Media
- Clare-Louise Battersby
- Spey Each-Uisge
- Mixed Media
- Clare-Louise Battersby
- Mossy Microcosm II
- Stitched
- Clare-Louise Battersby
- Mossy Microcosm II
- Stitched
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