Marie Claire
3 Artworks
Biography
Human relationships were the subject of Marie Claire's paintings. Despite the absence of a stable environment while growing up, she found strength in the love and joy given by her relatives and friends who cared for her. This experience drew her to portray life and relationships in her figures, especially women engaging in daily activities, children playing, and mothers rearing their children. Just as she featured human relationships in her paintings, she hoped to connect with people and evoke their emotions by reminding them of their relationships or by finding solace in her artworks.
Getting hospitalized for fibromyalgia motivated Marie Claire to start making art again. She began filling her sketchpad with scribbles to divert her mind from the pain all over her body. Feeling calmed by scribbling, she pursued the development of this technique in her paintings. She started applying it to her works by meticulously drawing continuous circular lines in various colors that contrast with the backgrounds and give off an overall textured finish to her paintings.
Using scribbles as her signature technique, which she called "olondrizism," lent playfulness and spontaneity to her practice. Acrylic was her medium of choice, and her influences included impressionism, expressionism, and abstractionism.
She has participated in group exhibits since 2017 and has had three solo exhibitions. She has received various awards in Arts and Photography.