CLAUDIA PETRETTI

Claudia has a first class degree from Edinburgh College of Art and teaches drawing and painting part-time.

She travels extensively in Europe and it is this that inspires her work. Her paintings are a figurative recording of the colours, patterns, textures and rhythms found in the views around us depicted in a palette of rich blues, oranges and pinks - from the delicate facades of cafes and 'gelateria' to the pattern of archways discovered in a medieval Italian hilltown to summer gardens dancing with colour and inhabited with butterflies and birds. They are not directly representational but instead evoke the atmosphere of a particular view, providing the viewer with a visual reminder of somewhere visited.

Solo Exhibitions

2008 Valvona & Crolla, Edinburgh
2007 Valvona & Crolla, Edinburgh
2006 Newhaven Communications, Edinburgh
2005 Stenton Gallery
2002 House For an Art Lover, Glasgow
1996 Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh
1994 Kingfisher Gallery, Edinburgh

Selected Group Exhibitions

2008 The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh; The Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh
2007 Sojourners, Scottish Artists Abroad, City Art Centre, Edinburgh
2005 The Affordable Art Fair, Maclean Fine Art, London
2001-06 The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh; Compass Gallery, Glasgow; Stenton Gallery, E. Lothian
2000 Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh; Nexus Gallery, Edinburgh
1997 Visions and Emotions of Italy, Italian Cultural Institute, Edinburgh
1991 Scottish Colourists Old and New, Kirkcaldy Museum and Art Galleries