Biography
Claude learned to paint in New York with Ruyters, a follower of Magritte and Delvaux and a successful portrait painter in the 1960s.
Claude arrived in Italy in the 1970s and worked 25 years for a United Nations special agency (FAO) without ever stopping her artistic activity which also includes writing fiction. She was inspired by the numerous Third World countries where she travelled, and moved by human poverty and anguish.
From 2004, she participated in numerous collective shows, becoming a member of the Artistes Indépendants in Paris and showing her work at Art Capital at the Grand Palais in Paris. She has also had 2 one-man shows so far: at the Galeria Mona Lisa in Paris in 2007 and at IPSAR, Rome in 2008. The Galleria Rosso Cinabro, Rome has also represented her.
Claude's painting reflects her view of life as a continuous battle: Man battles Man, Man battles Nature. Her painting up to 2007 reflected the former and from 2007 to 2009 the latter.
Now Claude's painting has taken a new direction: HORSES - as symbol of harmony and strength, to be set against our own human mess and destruction...
Since 2011, Claude writes as much as she paints and she has designed the covers of her recently published books, all available on Amazon.
A trilogy in Italian is due to be published on Amazon's italian website in the fall of 2012 under the title IL VOLO DELLA FENICE.
