Claire Petit

Claire Petit

Claire Petit is symbolist but of a new sort. Her images are eerily static as though waiting for the unification of past, present and future. And by reducing the background of her paintings to almost formless expressionistic fields of color, she negates space and with it all pretense of naturalistic representation. Earlier symbolists sought meaning in the external world by painting their dreams and fantasies of that world. Claire Petit, on the other hand, draws us into her memories, fantasies and dreams of childhood from which she composes her very personal narrative and through which she appears ultimately to find peace and self-understanding.

Claire Petit is a painter who exhibits worldwide, her work is part of prestigious art collections in Europ and the U.S