Clare Blois ran her own successful gallery in the Highlands before "retiring" to concentrate on the development of her own work. She has won several accolades including the prestigious JD Fergusson Arts Award, has been an invited artist at the Discerning Eye Exhibition in London and reached the final shortlist for the Highland Art Prize 2022 presented at the National Mod. Clare works from her Wasps studio at Inverness Creative Academy and “en plein air” when she can.