Claudia Loomis Chandler

A native of Washington State, Claudia Loomis Chandler grew up with a keen
appreciation for nature. salt sea air of the ocean. Her earliest memories are full of the smell of crayons, pine trees and the salt sea air of the ocean.

Claudia’s first mural was discovered on the wall of her childhood bedroom. She never repented, knowing that beauty can never be bad. From the sculpting of mud pies in the backyard, to drawing on her chalkboard easel. Claudia has lived her life trying to interpret the world around her.

Now Claudia Lummis Chandler creates from her home in the Adirondacks Mountains. Amidst the forest and wildlife, she weaves her dreams and the texture of nature into baskets and onto her looms and other fiber arts. Claudia expresses herself through metalsmithing gold, silver, or copper into jewelry arts and visual arts such as watercolor and oil painting and drawing with ink and pencils.