Claire Martin-Cocher

I was born in 1959 in France and did my Arts and Painting studies at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Aix-en-Provence in France, where I met with the French painter Jacques de Thiersant who will influence my work and serves me as a mentor and then later with Jacques Boullier.

In 1984, I met the musician Joel Thiery with whom I shared my life. We will not leave each others until his brutal death in 2012. Our two artistic reflexions, musical and plastic, bond together, build along the years, remain indivisible.

From 1987-1991, I completed my training with Pierre and Iberia Lanoé who taught me the different techniques of Etching.

I live in a remote village lost in the French Alps where I find inspiration in the contemplation of the mountains and nature around me, eternal snow and far away skies. I try to give life to my visions of the eternal chaos that surrounded us to re-arrange it to create beauty.

In 2010, I participated to the creation of the Cairn group still in Savoie with Claude Sarragossi and Alain Parat.

I see myself as a craft woman; most of my paintings have been done on frames and canvas that I build myself, cutting the stretchers and using some old linen cloth locally made in the early 1900's applying rabbit skin glu...