Original artwork description:

In her present series of paintings, Hidden Cities, the symbolic and allegorical cityscapes that she depicts, timeless and unknown, may sometimes evoke metropolises or some undiscovered or mythical cities. "The cities are a metaphor of our limitations and resistances, says Claire, and that’s actually the parallel I make, it's between walls and limitations, they form layers of all that must transform in us; the journey to experience this inner transformation is not a linear ascending process but rather a multi dimensional one", and this is how Claire etches out her visual narrative, playing with different planes. She pursues: "And they are layers and layers to be transformed at different levels, nested in each other, strata of our small and large stories of now and before. The mythical cities are present remains of an attempt of a new world and in this adventure of a new man, we also carry these experiences".
Her iridescent paintings are always alight with a fire which is the manifestation of the will that allows us to overcome limitations. "The skies represent possibilities", explains Claire, "and on Earth, where all our limitations are, there is a sea or a river, a flow, that allows us to link everything. "

Materials used:

watercolour, tempera and acrylics