ARTIST STATMENT
am a figurative artist weaving folklore into personal iconography.
Rooted in oil painting, particularly self-portraiture, my practice
also embraces driftwood, textiles, and upcycled objects.
At its core, each of my pieces forms a mosaic of memory, a visual rewriting of a collective history of feminine liberation, queerness, love and grief.
I think of my work through the lens of biomythography, what Kate King describes as a rewriting that entwines personal and collective history. Raised between China and France in a wounded family, I found early refuge in fairytales and the presence of nature.
In my pieces, familiar landscapes surface, animals and insects from my childhood return as heroes and foes. My figures are often captured in a moment of transformation. Not quite objet nor animal, they speak to the fluidity of identity and the evolving search for self. They reflect on the weight of generational trauma and the oppression of heteronormativity. Nature is always present in my fables, queer, glowing, guiding us to a softer realm.
Claire Moss is a French-Chinese artist working in London. Her oil paintings thread motifs of escapism and queerness through self portraiture.
Moss studied oil painting and drawing at London Fine Art Studios, where she developed her practice in observational figure and still life while crafting a surrealist, story-driven language.
Beyond oil painting, Moss works in lino printing, sewing and crocheting. Her work has been sold, published and exhibited across the UK including at the Queer International Museum in London. She has recently been featured in the 10th issue of the Arts to Hearts Magazine.
Moss will next exhibit with JustArt in London from May 22nd-25th 2026.
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