Claire Robert, born in Metz, has resided on the island for four years, and is part of the bohemian atmosphere that comes from all parts of the world and finds here a source of constant creativity and inspiration, with a light that floods them when creating.
Claire works in her atelier in La Villa, a centuries-old house in the middle of the historical capital of Lanzarote. In her painting studio, she is inspired by seeking inner answers, a constant exercise of personal self-knowledge. Between alchemy and meditation, she prepares for canvases that leave no one indifferent: "I make art because I need it, it is part of my person and you cannot leave it aside," she replies when asked why.
The young painter already has a certain name. Among this recognition are two reviews in the New York Times. These reviews are part of her curriculum, which portrays that desire for constant freedom that leads her to twist proportionality in her works.
The artist is constantly represented in her canvases through her experiences. From her childhood and youth, she finds dance in her memory, which she practiced for fifteen years, and captures it with small dancers. Vaporous white figures that make up a stage to which the viewer looks out to discover an inner universe. "I spent a lot of my time in rooms where I practiced ballet. They were closed places, where the art of dancing invited you to transcend, something similar to what I do now in my painting workshop."
For Claire, art is not negotiable, "my painting expresses moments, interiorities, and experiences that last in the head. Although sometimes you have to go look for them in your own being. That's why I squeeze the interior... I don't make art, I am an artist," she clarifies.
The technique she uses is always oil, printed on the fabrics of her canvases. Inspired by a ritual of solitude, with classical music as a companion. Claire explains that her painting is emotional and humanist, in the constant search for the meaning of life. "The level of consciousness has in itself a light that is reflected in her works, and that the Lanzarote sun enhances," she says. Here she has found her own philosopher's stone, as she herself describes it: "The island is a personal gift that has changed me, this light is magical and takes you to the essence of things, it is pure energy."
Claire has decided to take "the most difficult path", that of finding the world around her from within and capturing it in her art. "Before seeing the light, you have to reach the darkness to become more aware of what I do, an internal connection that is then reflected in the painting." All this happens in this small place in the middle of the Atlantic, Lanzarote.
