Claire Tabouret

French painter Claire Tabouret is known for her layered, impressionistic portraits that explore love, inner conflict and collective psychology. In 2012, she emerged onto the art scene with a series of self-portraits she created daily with ink on rice paper. Each self-portrait was vastly different, and paradoxically, by repeating the same routine, Claire revealed just how much identity changes. These early self-portraits soon developed into large oil and acrylic canvases with high-contrast colour palettes depicting groups of people from old vintage photographs. This has become Claire's defining style – in particular, her paintings based on photos from Débutante balls, a cultural tradition founded in the 1600s which sees middle-class women celebrate 'coming-of-age.' This sense of cultural nostalgia also manifests in melancholy renditions of characters like Snow White and Peter Pan.