About

clare hastings started…

her career in the fashion department of Harpers and Queen magazine, before leaving to work freelance as a stylist and later costume designer clothing models, actors and even real people for stills shoots and commercials. 30 years later and Clare changed direction to work alongside her daughter Calypso. They have an experience company The Indytute.

Clare’s mother was the writer Anne Scott James, who inspired her to garden. Clare has lived with her partner Nick for over 30 years, and they move between the Berkshire cottage to a flat in London, where they continue to get their garden fix by humping soil and plants five floors up and onto the roof. Clare has recently turned to the pen - ‘Gardening Notes from a late Bloomer’ is due out on April 5th 2018 (published by The Pimpernel Press) and her first novel ‘The House in Little Chelsea’ was published in September 2019 (also published by Pimpernel).