Claire Pinatel

Presentation

Counting on two graphic design degrees, it took her a few years working in agencies in France and Germany before she started to exclusively concentrate on painting in 2008. Influenced for many years by graphic design, packaging, typography, video, photography and advertising, her paintings are a hodgepodge of glued papers, stencils, flying letters, standardized faces and wallpaper patterns. Swinging between computer and canvas, all means are great to express all forms of contemporary saturation: visual pollution, overpopulation, overloading lives we go thru daily.

After four years abroad between Spain, Germany and Bolivia, she decided to fly back to France in 2009 to settle in the middle of Bordeaux, the biggest French vineyard, where she has been finding inspiration to develop her painter carrier and skills.