Clare Clinton

Clare has been a Trustee of Painshill Park since 2025. She is the Arts, Heritage & Learning Manager at West Horsley Place. Clare grew up near Painshill and has been a regular visitor since the 1990s. She is passionate about enabling more ways for people to access, learn, be creative and feel comfortable in heritage spaces. Before moving into heritage, Clare worked at Christie’s and various art dealers. In 2009 she wrote Metamorphosis not Metaphor, a retrospective on the work of Donald Hamilton Fraser RA, published by Lund Humphries. Clare graduated from the University of St. Andrews with an MA in History and History of Art. She sits on the Historic Houses Learning Advisory Panel and is a Trustee of Chawton House.