The Groopers Painting

My name is Carol Claudia Alvarez Brantes, and my stage name is Claudine Brantes, my maternal surname and Claudine in honor of my beloved grandmother Claudine. I am passionate about art, and I started in this world from a young age, when as a teenager faced with an illness that kept me at rest and being very restless, my father gave me a drawing and painting kit. Looking at magazines I found works by Modigliani, an artist who fascinated me and whose style I tried to copy, adding my personal stamp. I didn't know it, but from that moment on, I began to forge my own style, influenced by artists like Modigliani, Klimt, Matisse, among others. I started painting and I was lucky enough to study painting with great masters, such as the Chilean Hernan Soto León from Valparaiso, Chile; the Spanish Bernardo Rodriguez Gil, in Buenos Aires, Argentina; the Argentine Jorge Sarazola, in Buenos Aires, Argentina and currently with the great master Francisco Jose Villalon Godoy, in Las Condes, Metropolitan Region of Santiago, Chile. I have had the pleasure of participating as a guest in several exhibitions in Argentina by my teachers and of participating in exhibitions here in Chile and the world. I was also called by publishers to illustrate the book cover. My work generally embodies feelings. Those feelings that we try to cover because they generate something for us, and in my case that something is embodied in my paintings.