I am Claire Grundell and Helix Tree is my newly formed business. I live with my husband and three children in beautiful rural Dorset where I have lived all my life.  I love the beauty that accompanies each season and the changing colours of nature that gradually mix and harmonize together.   I like to think that my work can be looked at on more than one level. The symbolism in the imagery I use can mean different things to different people.  I love painting natural harmonies and cycles.  All things have a beginning and an end.  Day and night, light and dark, death and re-birth.  These themes can be found in much of my art.

I trained in illustration at Bournemouth and Poole College of Art and Design, although I didn't discover painting in watercolours until after I left college. After a break when I was busy having my children, I began to illustrate and paint again. I have exhibited my paintings with the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours for the past three years and with the Royal Marine Society's anniversary exhibition, both of which were at the prestigious Mall Galleries in London.