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| Claudia Frey | |||||||||||
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My fascination for colours started before I was five. I spent hours at our dining table at home in Switzerland painting and decorating things I had made. Later as a young adult I visited Europe’s art galleries, attracted by the wealth of visual expression. After graduating from a fashion college in my hometown of Bern, I devoted all my time to visual art. From 1985-89 I studied painting and art education at “Ecole superieure d'art visuel” in Geneva. During those four intense and rich years I acquired a wide range of experience with different materials and techniques. It was then I discovered my own way of expressing myself. Since that time most of my work has been inspired by motion and movement in nature but colour and its combinations have remained a strong preoccupation.
After leaving university I have continued painting but I have also enjoyed teaching arts and crafts to schoolchildren of all ages. Their lively nature and innate creativity is inspiring and has enriched my life as an artist. Since 1993 I have been living in the United Kingdom and Japan, showing my work regularly in solo and group exhibitions. I am also working on the illustrations for a book of children’s poetry and I have just started an “Arts and Crafts Club” at a local school in west London. |
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| 1988 1991 1992 1992 1993 - 95 1994 + 95 1995 1996 1998 2000 2002 2003 2004 |
"Bain d'Art" Centre Thermal, Yverdon-les-Bain, Switzerland Christmas Exhibition "Philosophies" Galerie Aebli und Ried, Bern, Switzerland participation in several group exhibition at Kew Studio, Richmond UK 1st International Biennial of Female Art, Stockholm Christmas Exhibition at Bartley Drey Gallery, London Bartley Drey Gallery, London 21st International Art Exhibition Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum Wacoal Ginza Art Space, Tokyo Orito Gallery, Yokohama Open House exhibition, Kew UK “Attention!… to detail” Open House exhibition, Kew UK |
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