Claire Bell
Region: Whanganui
Born in England in 1984, Claire emigrated to New Zealand in 2003. She completed a BFA at Elam School of Fine Arts and post graduate studies at the University of Auckland in 2008, and then worked as an apprentice glassblower at Nash Glass in Auckland till 2016. She then decided to follow her own path, and set up a glass engraving studio in Whanganui to learn how to engrave large scale and create engraved mirrors.