Freestyle (2021) Painting by Claire Morand

Self-taught, I immerse my imagination, my knives and brushes in the light and colors of my beautiful Mediterranean region, then on all the supports I find: canvases, cardboard, walls, and...mailboxes!

I mainly use acrylic for the spontaneity and lack of meticulousness it allows. And yet my inclination towards impulsive gestures, to “batchwork” as we say back home, is matched only by the meticulousness and even the obsessiveness of the details that I can inject into a painting. Thus, flat areas and pointillism sometimes embrace each other on the same canvas, or challenge each other from one painting to another.

The key words that animate my art: light, living colors, movement, and the search for new sensations.

It is not one, but two brushstrokes that define my work. Two identities, two artists: Claire V, the naive painter of mailboxes, endless fields of flowers and spring that sings. Then Claire Morand, a little more mature, who entrusts her creative instinct to the call of movement in a more modern art, expressed in the jump of skiers, in crazy races of sailboats in the wind.

There is no question of erasing one for the benefit of the other. The child and the adult coexist and collaborate in my inspiration as in life.

Solo and collective exhibitions in the PACA region and in Monaco.

• Nationality: FRANCE
• Date of birth : 1967
• Artistic domains: Works by artists with a certified artist value, Works by professional artists,
• Groups: Certified Artists Professional Artist Contemporary French Artists