Claire Charousset

"Give me some mud I'll do art"

Claire Charousset is a self-taught Parisian artist with Polish origins. After a baccalaureate in plastic arts obtained at the age of 16, she went to study literature and art history, then moved to the advertising business for 6 years. Her sensitivity to environmental issues will lead her to a recycling association where she trades brushes for digital tools. But she never completely abandoned her passion for pictorial art, running museums and taking evening classes in painting and drawing after work, and painting again at night. Painting is a necessity for her, a means of exorcising some of the wounds of the past and fighting with her inner demons, but it is above all a quest for authenticity. Indeed painting is a return to personal sources but also more universal, a return to the roots of humanity and Nature, a way to probe the depths of the soul and emotions. She is fascinated by the beauty of raw materials and raw materials such as wood or stone, rare metals and the question of their preservation. She also likes to reveal in her paintings the contrasts and paradoxes which, according to her, are at the origin of all life: the masculine-the feminine, the darkness-the light, the fire-water or the encounter between the abstract and the figurative, the mat and the brilliant, the rough and the smooth, the tribal art and the classical art. Indeed, creation, life, is the most powerful in the meeting of opposites, as hot and cold meet to create the storm and lightning. She loves painting as she likes people, wild and poetic, with their asperities, depth, dark and brilliant at the same time. It is inspired by very diverse artists but particularly admires the "stormy" power that can be found, of course, in all expressionist abstract artists, such as Pollock or Rothko but also in the works of Michelangelo, Delacroix, Caravaggio Turner, Egon Schiele, Munch, Basquiat, and Anselm Kiefer.

She would like to share her art with others by exhibiting and would like to be able to collaborate with various artists and engaged, street artists in particular and be able to develop a specific art from recycling to reinterpret the famous sentence of Baudelaire "You gave me your mud and I made some gold". In "Give me mud I'll do Art"