Little Creatives Artist: Clare Taylor

Clare Taylor is an Artist Educator based in the East Midlands. In 2016, she founded and now runs Bus and Bird Arts, a small Participatory Arts organisation creatively connecting communities. She has over twenty years practice in designing & delivering creative sessions & multi-disciplinary activities for a broad spectrum of participants from pre-schoolers through to professional adults. In addition, she has co-ordinated the work of teams of specialists, non-specialist staff, artists and volunteers on school based and cultural sector based projects.

Clare has worked on several audience development and Heritage projects with museums and libraries through to schools and hospitals. Commissions have ranged from a permanent textiles installation for Mansfield Museum’s ‘Made in Mansfield’ gallery, bespoke shadow puppets commissioned for Nottingham Mela by Real Creative Futures through to being appointed Inspire’s Visual Artist on their ‘Home Cooked Heritage’ Heritage Fund project.

Alongside her passion for participatory arts, she makes her own multi-disciplinary art work in a small garden studio (known affectionately as The Shed of Dreams) and delights in watching the local wildlife from her shed windows.

Clare ‘treads lightly’ with her consumption of resources by reusing materials and experimenting with her own homemade inks, glazes and handmade papers created from waste products and natural materials. Clare’s “Distilling Rainbows” courses in botanical ink and paper making are popular with people looking to create art with a more sustainable approach.

Find out more about Clare's work here: busandbird.co.uk