Claire Scofield

As an infant, Claire loved the smell of the oil paints in her uncle's workshop and studio in Paris, where he was a restorer of original art works. She always had paintings around her as her great grand-father Charles Audierne was a painter, he is listed in the Bénézit ( Dictionnary of french painter from the 19 century) as a «little master of the French School of Fontainebleau».

After her course at the university of Bordeaux for teaching arts, Claire created in 1995 an art studio for an association in Castillon-la-Bataille (Gironde) while teaching at schools (College-secondary schools).

She took part in a few exhibitions with other artists of the region, and on her own in chais and châteaux in the Bordeaux région and galleries in Mont de Marsan, St Emilion, Bordeaux and Brussels.

From 2003 to 2017, Claire has been in charge of the Visual Identity Image and communication for a firm called RAL-Diagnostics (medical diagnostic) as well as teaching at the Amical'Artist for 17 years in Castillon and carried on with her own paintings.

In Spring 2017, she finished with her job for RAL to start a new studio in Pellegrue and dedicate herself to painting exclusively. At this moment, she changed her artist name for Claire Scofield.

Technic

The structural parts of the drawing are monotypes with prints of black ingliato ink (for engraving works) (dark green for the serie of Jardins de Sardy). The print makes the drawing enriched with the efects of substances, more of less at random. 90 per cent of the work comes out on the sheet of plexiglas before pressing the paper, which will fix the picture (a restrainer is added to the ingliato ink so the painting can be modified).

The painting is set on the paper in one print, then the colours are touched up in watercolour. In the recent works the colours for background are painted before the print, so it gives more freedom in the different steps of the creation. For the pictures of actual landscapes, the views have to be painted from photographs because they need to be turned over, left to right as in a mirror.