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Claire Basler

Claire Basler

Country: Paris, France

The world of Claire Basler

A garden’s dream where the artist grows her models. Simple and generous flowers which talk, dance fight in an energetic color scheme.
In large square or long rectangles and with a very personal subtlety, her canvas restitute the design of a garden, its embroidery, its vegetables and its flowers seen from nearby and afar, in the course of seasons, in the shadow and the light.
Accordingly, they illustrate this poetry of fragility and ephemeral hidden behind the obvious immutability of the flowerbeds.

Moreover, the artist often speaks like her forests, her landscapes and her flowers with volubility and energy but also with forceful gestures in keeping with her both lively and mastered brushstrokes. Claire Basler admires in nature the power of revival, which is a joyful and agile renewal.


Claire Basler - May 5 - May 28, 2005
Nature is the source of Basler’s inspiration – she calls it ‘a pretext for daydreaming’

The Sunday Telegraph Magazine

"Robert Sandelson gallery is delighted to present an exhibition of paintings by French artist Claire Basler (born 1960 in Vincennes, France). This is the artist’s first show in the UK.
Claire Basler is interested in maintaining a dialogue with the past. She studied at the Ecole des Beaux Arts, yet it was at the Louvre where she found the sources of her inspiration, spending many hours observing the masterpieces of the museum’s collections. She especially admired the work of 18th Century French artists such as Watteau, which remain to this day a point of reference for her.
Her true inspiration, however, comes from nature herself: the strength of a tree, the softness of a flower, the vaulted space of a forest, the shocking openness of a meadow or field. In her Montreuil garden, she witnesses
nature’s fight for life against the wind, the rain and the sun. This is what Claire Basler portrays in her paintings: the strength and frailty of a flower, the reassuring nature of a tree, the metamorphosis of a simple poppy.
The uniqueness of her works lies not only in her fine skill in representing nature, but also in the particular manner in which she chooses to frame the image. Some of her paintings resemble a fragment taken from a larger scale work. These fragmented images of landscapes are very intimate hints of what her imagination captures in the complete scene.
The fragments and voids recall Asian artistic traditions. The voids are a presence; they open up a spiritual space and inspire contemplation. They enhance contrasts and convey a sense of tension.
Claire Basler has had press coverage globally, notably World of Interiors, Homes and Gardens, Vogue and, in January of this year, The Sunday Telegraph which featured her studio, home and artworks in the Interiors section of their magazine."

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