Claire Bolay is an artist painter of great talent. She lives in chexbres. Nature inspires it: Lavaux vineyards, The mountains and values ​​of the Vaudois prealps, The edges of Lake Geneva and the banks of the Rhône. Claire Bolay, Always creating, uses various supports and techniques such as gouache, Batik, Chinese ink drawing and textile creations. She is passionate about the oil she studies in self -taught. The technique of oil painting allows him to play on thickness and transparency and promotes his desire to express his color perception as well as possible, Even his invention when it comes to translating an impression rather than a photographic reproduction of a landscape.

What she likes above all, These are the colors, multiple and subtle, nuanced or lively. Oil - which it enjoys natural pigments - by its texture helps it to reproduce its impressions with intensity, Sometimes with violence: colors and light, contrast game, force of the elements.

The essential is there: to interpret reflections and shadows, Give back to the sunset its shine, Restore an atmosphere, pay tribute to light. A lively line, the audacity of oppositions, The strength of the knife on the canvas characterize its painting. Play with the thickness of the material to restore the transparent of the water, This is the challenge.

Nature inspires it: Lavaux vineyards, The mountains and values ​​of the Vaudois prealps, The edges of Lake Geneva and the banks of the Rhône. The line and the color do not say the real, But transmit the effect that a rai of light or that a shadow cause the artist.

Claire is still looking for; whether in terms of new techniques, in particular the paint with an enclosure mixed with pure pigments, Or at the level of new forms of expression by research on movement.