Born in Neuilly in July 1947,Claire Lewis spend most of her childhood in Mediterranean countries, mostly Greece.

Living surrounded by an artistic atmosphera, she went later to The Academy of Fine Arts in Roma  where she has been studying during one year. Back in Paris, she has been successively at the Academy of  Les Grandes and at the  Poussin's painting workshop.

During this workshop time, the living model will be for her decisive and it's around this schema that she will approach painting.

From her travelling childhood, Claire keeps a deep sense colouring et movement and one can say that her paintings show the light of the places where has grown up.

Her works have been exhibited since 1998.

«  I Have been glad to observe how Claire Lewis'painting
has been changing since many years. Inspired by the
human body which she has choosen as her field of
experience et discovery, she shows an acute sense of
observation, of composing and discovering.
Her innate sense of harmony of colours is evident when
painting nudes but equally in her more recent works about
flowers.

The game of lights captivates her as much as drawing
itself, and so she builds a world both intimist and
personal.
Claire was enough lucky to belong to a family of worldly
reknowed painters. Her grand-father was a famous
painter first in Paris « à la Belle Epoque » and then in
Panama where he moved later.
Her works balance wisely between abstraction and naturalism.

Prof. Anton Rajer
Fulbright Scholar
University of Wisconsin - Décembre 2004