Her painting of opera singer Anna Dennis was selected for Threadneedle Figurative Art Exhibition which took place in the Mall Galleries, London in August 2008.
She continues to work part time as manager of the Postgraduate Programme at The Prince's Drawing School.
Clara Drummond was born in Edinburgh in 1977. With an architect father and sculptor mother it was not surprising that she decided at an early age to become a painter.
After making the decision not to go to art college, she studied languages at Cambridge University and graduated with a degree in Spanish and Italian. She then moved to London to work for three years as an assistant to portrait painter Jonathan Yeo.
Following this inspiring experience and a short period in Maria Theresa Meloni’s studio in New York she was awarded a place on The Drawing MA programme at the Prince’s Drawing School.
This intensive year of drawing improved and developed both her draftsmanship and her approach to painting.
Clara has been exhibited by The Garrick/ Milne Prize, The Society of Woman Artists,
The Lynn Painter-
She won the Young Artist of the Year Prize for the painting of Poppy at the Society of Woman artists exhibition in 2005.
In 2008 she completed four portraits for the Royal Collection which were exhibited at Windsor Castle in June 2008. One of her sketchbook drawings was selected to represent the school in an exhbition celebrating HRH the Prince of Wales’ 60th birthday. This exhibition continues at Windsor Castle.
She was selected to be Artist in Residence at Hatley Park, Cambridgeshire, for the month of August 2008.
The residency culminated in an exhibition in her studio in Chelsea.
Clara at work