Claudia D

I was born in Colombia, in 1979, I came living in France on 2000

I studied art history at the Sorbonne during my first years of studies. Then during my first year of interior design (about 18 years ago), I had my first classes in drawing, "Nature morte", color and textures.

Between 2011 and 20...

I was born in Colombia, in 1979, I came living in France on 2000

I studied art history at the Sorbonne during my first years of studies. Then during my first year of interior design (about 18 years ago), I had my first classes in drawing, "Nature morte", color and textures.

Between 2011 and 2018 I created textile collections for the home, inspired by my Caribbean origins (northern Colombia). The production was made by hand in Colombia.

During the confinement, one day of January 2021, I bought a canvas for the first time, took acrylics and remembered that I had inks in a box. In that impulse, I created a painting every other day for 2 months. The series: "Secret Gardens". About thirty works dedicated to small outdoor gardens. This subject explores various human emotions and processes like: Self liberation, feeling safe through a landscape and the beauty of naivety and such a sacred carachters.

I am a disciple of harmony in disorder, of more in less, of the busy in the simple, of the lightness in the layering of paint and ink, crushed by rollers of various sizes and textures to make almost lithographs.

My bias is to express through simple, naive and dreamlike works a kind of power that manifests itself through color as well as through architectural elements. My background in the creation of fabrics also appears in some of my works through the search for textures.

Travel and cultures opposite to my Latin American roots have always fascinated and inspired me, Japan, Scandinavia, the Mediterranean coast so different from the Caribbean coast.

Nature is inseparable from art. It is always present through simple and effective patterns to tell a real story, like in Japanese children's books.

One color: blue. Majestic. Mystical. Soft and solid at the same time. Blue is the starting point in all my work. From the subject and this color, I compose the rest, the other colors in complement. The blue ink by its fluidity whispers