claudette losier

immersed in the stillness within - claudette losier

soul mate - claudette losier

popping red poppies - claudette losier

glowing red poppies bending towards perfection - claudette losier

court gesture no. 2 - claudette losier

bounty & grace - claudette losier

my gypsy - claudette losier

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claudette losier answers our questions:

what question do you wish would be asked in an interview and how would you answer it?
Why the Flower? And my response is because it is so beautiful and gives so much delight and because I see the Creator of the Universe in them. Like Georgia O’Keeffe I too want people to stop and look at the flowers so that per Keats they feel a thing of beauty is a joy forever.

why art? and why art in hamilton?

I do art because it’s a primal need inside to create that gives so much joy and again because I feel connected to the Creator of the Universe. I did not choose Hamilton rather a Hamiltonion chose me and we moved back to his childhood home on the “mountain” near upper paradise!


who or what inspires you?
The Creator of the Universe inspires me as he does the works in me. Plus right now I would say my guru Yogananda’s yoga wisdom inspired by divine love said with such soul poetry inspires me deeply since I keep thinking of new art to create from his words! Nature of course inspires me too since I paint flowers and water, and now working on tree paintings. I also get inspired by portraiture which I am just returning to and have completed 3 paintings of family members. When I am out with my digital camera I take pictures of nature close up and blurred, plus reflections in water and glass. I’m interested in yoga and physic science and seeing the world in a new way that we are the energy behind the matter that we think is so real. I want to create works in this direction of breaking down matter which may mean going more abstract and also playing with the picture plane a lot more than I currently do or developing those doodles I am doing where little creatures just appear that were not intended on a conscious level that is. .

any wisdom you'd like to share about living as an artist?
Accept a lot of rejection, follow your path not others even if that goes against the contemporary art scene, and go for lots of exposure.


Is there anything in your art that you are afraid people might discover?
Yes positive cosmic vibrations! I now chant them in my studio to give my paintings some cosmic positive vibrations.


BIO:

I graduated from Brock University with a Honours BFA in Fine Arts in 1989 and left in their collection a chalk pastel drawing entitled “On Your Mark” and an acrylic painting on their walls entitled “Unfinished Runner”. Since graduating my creativity focuses on my paintings in oils using the glazing method of painting, and realism with various themes. I work on several bodies of work such as: flowers and gardens, swimmer as a metaphor for identity and life’s journey, portraiture, and using various transfer art techniques. I have had 16 solo shows since 1989 and numerous groups and juried shows. I have won several awards in Juried Shows in Ontario that includes an award of merit for my swimmer drawing “Drifting”, and two best in show awards for my portraiture work, one in chalk pastel and the other using the transfer technique. In 2009 I received awards for my transfer art: an Honorable Mention for “Phantom Riders” at the Burlington Art Center’s Kaleidoscope April 2009 event, and in October 2009 the Gerald Gunther Humanity Award for “Noodling My Doodling With Thy Neighbour”. I have my art work selling at both the Burlington Art Centre Art Ectera shop and the Art Gallery of Hamilton’s Art Rental and Shop.

In 2010 I have been invited to show at the Elaine Fleck Gallery in Toronto in her “Contemporary Artists You Should Know About” April Show and her spring catalogue on line at www.elainefleckgallery.co. I just received another Honorable Mention award for “Noodling My Doodling With Thy Neighbour” in NeoPopRealism online International art competition at links:
http://neopoprealismjournal.wetpaint.com and http://wonderpedia.wetpaint.com. In February I had another solo show at the Blue Angel called “The Harvest” showing my drawings, paintings, transfer art and photos. This show will be moved to The Pearl Company Small Gallery for the month of June with opening on June 5th. My Swimmers show entitled “Body Voyage – Return to the Sacred” will be on display from May 26th to June 29th at the fireside lounge in the Burlington Art Center.

I teach art at the Burlington Art Center, and the Royal Botanical Gardens in Burlington plus private lessons. My art is on the following web sites: claudettelosier.artshamilton.ca, www.absolutearts.com/portfolios/l/Losier/, and www.flickr.com/photos/30736118@N03/. Three of my transfer art is included in book-catalog NeoPopRealism Starz: 21st Century Art by Nadia Russ, compendium of new millennium contemporary art in stores September 2009, including in www.barnesandnoble.com and www.amazon.com for details visit: http://neopoprealismstarz.com/id80.html.

claudettelosier.artshamilton.ca
www.absolutearts.com/portfolios/l/Losier/
www.flickr.com/photos/30736118@N03/