Smagik Studio

Hi! I’m Claire and I am no more an expert on creative smagik than you are. 

What I know is that I have manifested a creative, beautiful life by regularly sitting down at my dining room table with scissors, glue, paint, and paper and collaging my vision into reality. I believe in the power of manifestation, in people, optimism, karma, finding and creating beauty in the everyday, the restorative power of laughter and music, that I can write my way to clarity, that we create our realities with our thoughts, that life is an adventure not to be played safe, and that we are more powerful than we can imagine. 

I was fortunate enough to be born into a family that thought of creativity like drinking water or eating food; a necessity not to be separated from life. When I was 6, I spent hours drawing “fashion books” at the dining room table. This led to making and selling skirts from vintage tablecloths in college and then to a 20+ year career as a costumer in the film industry. None of it was linear, but after lots of travel, a job as the teen photographer for the local newspaper, the desire to be an actress, a college degree in American Studies, here we are. It all began at the kitchen table with paper and markers.

I love black and white photography layered under mixed media prints, floating in the Mediterranean, flea markets, how easy it is to pull weeds in my garden after a summer rain, landlines, my dog, dancing, writing really short stories, family, reading paper books, the memory of my analog childhood, astrology, thinking of new ways to tell tech bros and billionaires to go fck themselves, mixing words with image, and the color pink. 

What do you believe in and what do you love? Let's remember.