Claudia De La Hoz was born in Colombia. She grew up on the Caribbean coast, surrounded by the beautiful tropical birds that feature in her work. She arrived in Paris in 2000 to study art and began her career in interior design and decoration. After developing a collection of traditional textiles with Colombian artisans, she began painting for the first time in 2020, during the lockdown due to the coronavirus pandemic. Having never taken a painting class, she spontaneously created more than 60 canvases, discovering a talent that was undoubtedly inherited: “My grandfather was a painter, but I had seen almost none of his work,” explains Claudia De La Hoz. “Yet he unconsciously passed on a great deal of inspiration to me.”

 

Dreamlike paintings that explore nature and femininity

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Claudia De La Hoz has enjoyed tremendous success thanks to social media. Spotted by galleries in Paris, then in the United States and London, the painter now exhibits her dreamlike world all over the world. Her paintings feature soft pastel colors and a few recurring figures that appear without warning: trees that resemble cotton candy, faceless women, birds. “I paint without thinking, without making any preliminary sketches,” she says. “Often, the idea for the painting is already in a dream; I just do what my unconscious tells me to do.” This mystical, almost naive universe has captivated

 

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