Pequeños Universos (Series) (Small Universes) Painting

Claudia Ferrari was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She is an English and French translator and, while doing her post-degrees studies in Paris, she had the opportunity of getting in touch with local artists. She returns to Buenos Aires and in 1988 she starts studying Sumi-, a japanese painting technique on rice paper, with Kazu Takeda, an international renowned artist. She also studied Japanese, its culture and its ideograms for more than ten yearsArt is an essential part of my life. I paint mainly sumi-e which is a japanese technique where you use sumi inks which are natural dyes made from flowers and rice paper that I then mount on canvas to give my works a more contemporary finish. I like mixing the traditional with the contemporary, achieving an unique quality. I manage to mix the oriental technique and treatment of Nature with my occidental being.