Colette Clair

After studying visual arts, which provided her with a solid visual culture and a mastery of the fundamentals of drawing and composition, Colette Claire chose to continue her training by participating in numerous workshops and courses with various masters. This diversity of teaching, techniques, and sensibilities has enriched her practice considerably, while allowing her to gradually develop a highly personal pictorial style.

Today, his work is part of an in-depth exploration of portraiture, considered not as a simple representation, but as a territory of expression and questioning. His figures, often silent, seem inhabited by a subtle interiority that the artist explores through the pictorial material, the interplay of transparency, and the vibration of colors.

In several of his works, plants appear as a poetic or metaphorical counterpoint: a branch, a leaf, a flower become an extension of the body or of emotion. This presence of the living reinforces the dialogue between humans and nature, between what is shown and what lies beneath the surface.

True to a resolutely figurative approach, Colette Claire positions herself at the crossroads of sensitivity and construction. Each canvas is conceived as a space of encounter — between rigor and spontaneity, observation and imagination, memory and invention.

Through this exploration of the face and the plant world, her work seeks to reveal the fragility of life and the persistence of beauty, in its simplest and most universal form.