Claire Rees-Jones : Artist

Since childhood I’ve enjoyed all aspects of the arts and couldn’t have chosen a better place to live than Stroud. It’s a town full of artists and creative people with a very vibrant events calendar including the popular Site and Open Studios Festival which now takes place in May each year, and in which I have been a regular participant.
In recent years my particular area of interest has been in creating collages using postage stamps, which I call Stamp Collages. The reaction from most people when they see my work for the first time is one of complete surprise and it’s not until they examine my work closely that they realise what I have used to create my pictures.
As well as taking part in Open Studios, opening my studio at home to the public, I have exhibited at venues including Pegasus Arts at Thrupp, and Taurus Crafts in Lydney, and also regularly at The Old Passage Inn in Arlingham as part of the Walking the Land group of artists. Retailers including Made In Stroud, M.A.D.E. in Cirencester, Torbay Stamp Centre and Taunton Stamp Centre also stock my greetings cards. Articles about my stamp collages have appeared in the press and in stamp magazines with international circulation, including Stanley Gibbons Stamp Monthly, Stamp Magazine and The American Philatelist, and have brought many interesting contacts worldwide .