Featured artist
Claudia Punter
Canada
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Specialty Categories
Painting/Drawing - Wildlife/Birds
Castor Canadensis The Beaver
acrylic on masonite 18 1/2" x 28" |
Merganser
acrylic on birch plywood 18" x 24" |
Rendez-vous
acrylic on masonite 24" x 36" |
Painting/Drawing - Pets/Equine
Back in the Stable
acrylic on hardboard 14 1/2" x 15" |
His Shadow
guache on watercolor paper framed, 26 1/2" x 34" |
Islander
acrylic on masonite 36" x 24" |
Painting/Drawing - Floral
Feeding Frenzy
acrylic on masonite 9" x 15" |
Roses
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Rhododendron
watercolor 8" x 12" |
Artist Statement
I did not go to art schools, but learned by taking workshops, reding books and magazines and by painting, whenever I have a minute. I believe that everybody has the ability to be creative. Creative in different ways and different degrees.
I have a passion for nature, and this passion, together with creativity and commitment, motivates me to strive to a higher goal: to show people the beauty of our earth, to make them feel connected, and to stimulate the wish to conserve this planet.
Emotions tap into my paintings, the love for nature and its inhabitants. I like the challenge of pushing myself to find new subjects to paint and learn about them. I feel happiness in the presence of nature’s miracles.
I am thankful for my years as a veterinarian. It taught me how to organize, deal with deadlines, work with discipline and be patient.
I want to share and pass on this love, bring up memories in the viewer, connect with him through the paintings. I want to create beauty.
My wish is that people can remember a moment of their life experiences, I want to recap what they experienced, saw, heard, smelled, touched.
Each animal is unique, in their appearance, their behavior, their interactions to others and to the environment. This I can use, and show, as an artist. I am intensely interested in nature, spending lots of time learning and observing animals and their habitat.
If people look at one of my paintings, they see a scene, and animal, maybe plants, rocks…. My wish is, that the longer they look, the deeper they see: joy, fear, business, comradery, surviving, you name it.
It should be an exciting, thought awakening, moving experience, viewing the painting from a distance and from up close as well.
I am a conservationist. My paintings and sculptures are dedicated to the appreciation and conservation of nature and wildlife.
I’d like to show that if we use too much water, nature, wildlife and we suffer. If we use all this plastic and toxic substances, we destroy the best we have, our planet. If we pollute the air, we suffocate. So, if every individuum, me and you, care, we will all be better, happier, enjoying the gifts of wonderful nature.
I like the saying of Ignatius of Loyola: “The seeing of beauty is God’s gift to us humans”. It humbles me how much effort it takes to make a simple painting and what an abundance of beauty, vibrancy, color, life we get, can see and taste and feel, all day and night long!
As a painter I am a realist. I like texture and color, and I like details.
I love to paint. I enjoy using varied mediums. I paint mainly in acrylic, but also in watercolor, oil and pastel. With acrylics I use a wet palette so the paint stays longer workable. Experimenting with mixed media, adding “stuff” to a painting, gives a change I like. Preferably I work on masonite board.
Trial and error teach me, as do all the mistakes I make.
I take my own photos and go through them for composition, crop and add, delete and mix the subjects until I find a result that pleases me.
After priming it in a light grey color, I bring a background color on. This might be a blue from the sky or a green from pasture or forest, all in a medium tone, so I can go on with darker and lighter values.
Then I transfer the drawing, most of the time using the grid method.
Learning is a constant companion. The painting has to be as I want it: the expressions, the message has to be communicated. And it takes me weeks, months, to finish a painting. Time is not important, important is the message I want to give: care for our environment, care for our wildlife, care for us humankind. It is so much beauty on this earth, we should all make a priority to adore and respect it.
There’s the critique who condemns realism, putting it down as “photographic”, and there’s the persons who condemn abstract, throwing it away as “everybody can scribble this”. And there’s the true art lover who can read the art in every style, can interpret the artists passions, thoughts and strokes.
We can not copy nature. Nature is always greater, full of mysteries. A nature painting can only lead the viewer to look, and fall in awe, of creation. Nature is not only visual. We hear, we smell, we feel, we can taste. Go out into nature and absorb it!
Exploring the subject, a plant, an animal, a scenery, with dedication, observe it and study it, brings discovery of the world around us. We have to search, and to find. To be in awe.
There is always much more in nature. When I look, and see, I know I can not reproduce it, no, it almost feels like I am painting an abstract from what nature shows me.
What is a perfect, a finished painting? I think this doesn’t exist. One artwork might be perfect to somebody, the same work seems imperfect to the other person. That’s the wonderful world of art. It gives endless possibilities, it lives uniqueness.
I wish that each of my paintings tells something to the viewer, brings up a memory, a feeling, sets a wish or let him make a resolution for his life. Then I think all the effort that is in the art work is worth it a thousand-fold.
I am convinced that we have to preserve wildlife habitat and wildlife to save ourselves.
I love to paint my passion: nature and the life in it. It inspires me, gives me joy and a sense of being.
Creation is beyond understanding. It’s a gift we all should appreciate to the highest.
I love all the details nature shows us – and with looking at it, and painting it, the more I appreciate it. A pine needle, a leaf, a stone, see how marvelous they are!
In each of them is an evolution, for millions of years, involved, and we all are part of this. It just fascinates me, I have to admire it, and show and communicate it through my paintings.
I like to show as close as possible what I see in nature – never to be able to copy the beauty, just be in awe. I have a deep respect to these wonders, and I have to paint them as realistic as I can to give them this respect. To me, wildlife art is THE art. We have to wake up and see. See nature with all it’s inhabitants, fauna and flora.
I see it as my duty to paint it and send a message. And I hope it helps to understand the need to change, to safe our oh so wonderful planet. Every little step towards this goal is worthwhile.
What is the goal of my work? I like to remind people about nature around us. And going further: to respect nature, to change the habit of using nature to conserve it. I like the viewer to enter my painting, be one with the scene.
I love the detail I see in nature. Something inner dictates me to paint it. It’s what I have to do.
Bio
Claudia Punter is born in Rome, Italy, to Swiss parents.
She grew up in Switzerland and traveled extensively through
Europe and North Africa.
In 1993 she and her husband with the two sons immigrated to Alberta, Canada.
In 2000 Claudia started with soapstone carving and in December 2013 she began with acrylic painting and soon after added watercolor painting as well.
She attended many workshops. Her teachers Robert Bateman, Terry Isaac, Alex Fong, and Lian Quan Zhen gave her courage to go the way of painting and art, gave her lots of inspiration and help. She is studying art on a daily base, through workshops, books and magazines.
Her tremendous love for all creatures, for people, animals and plants, the whole beauty of nature with all the colors, sounds, smells, tastes, shapes and expressions shows in her art. She loves realism and details.
She is a dedicated naturalist and conservationist. Seeing the beauty in nature, appreciate, honor and respect nature, is her passion. Her art is a visual message to a future where people see and respect nature.
Since 2010 Claudia lives and works in Osoyoos, British Columbia, Canada.
Currently she is a member of "Artists on Main", a member of the Okanagan Art Gallery, a member of the Osoyoos & District Arts Council, a Signature member AFCA of the Federation of Canadian Artists, member of FCA South Okanagan-Similkameen Chapter, the Central Okanagan Chapter and the Toronto Chapter, a Signature member of Artists for Conservation and an Elected Member of the Society of Canadian Artists.
She has a permanent exhibition of paintings at the Okanagan Art Gallery in Osoyoos, BC.
Her work has been in juried and non-juried art shows and galleries in Canada and abroad.
In her own words:
“I like to understand the animal; what it feels and thinks, what it struggles with and what makes it happy. Every single one is unique and I like to show this individuality in my paintings and sculptures.”
“Each piece of art teaches me, reveals me new ideas of how to approach the next one. It’s a constant, fascinating learning path.
I am a passionate painter and sculptor. With my art works I would like to enrich people’s life and the area they live in.”
I did not go to art schools, but learned by taking workshops, reding books and magazines and by painting, whenever I have a minute. I believe that everybody has the ability to be creative. Creative in different ways and different degrees.
I have a passion for nature, and this passion, together with creativity and commitment, motivates me to strive to a higher goal: to show people the beauty of our earth, to make them feel connected, and to stimulate the wish to conserve this planet.
Emotions tap into my paintings, the love for nature and its inhabitants. I like the challenge of pushing myself to find new subjects to paint and learn about them. I feel happiness in the presence of nature’s miracles.
I am thankful for my years as a veterinarian. It taught me how to organize, deal with deadlines, work with discipline and be patient.
I want to share and pass on this love, bring up memories in the viewer, connect with him through the paintings. I want to create beauty.
My wish is that people can remember a moment of their life experiences, I want to recap what they experienced, saw, heard, smelled, touched.
Each animal is unique, in their appearance, their behavior, their interactions to others and to the environment. This I can use, and show, as an artist. I am intensely interested in nature, spending lots of time learning and observing animals and their habitat.
If people look at one of my paintings, they see a scene, and animal, maybe plants, rocks…. My wish is, that the longer they look, the deeper they see: joy, fear, business, comradery, surviving, you name it.
It should be an exciting, thought awakening, moving experience, viewing the painting from a distance and from up close as well.
I am a conservationist. My paintings and sculptures are dedicated to the appreciation and conservation of nature and wildlife.
I’d like to show that if we use too much water, nature, wildlife and we suffer. If we use all this plastic and toxic substances, we destroy the best we have, our planet. If we pollute the air, we suffocate. So, if every individuum, me and you, care, we will all be better, happier, enjoying the gifts of wonderful nature.
I like the saying of Ignatius of Loyola: “The seeing of beauty is God’s gift to us humans”. It humbles me how much effort it takes to make a simple painting and what an abundance of beauty, vibrancy, color, life we get, can see and taste and feel, all day and night long!
As a painter I am a realist. I like texture and color, and I like details.
I love to paint. I enjoy using varied mediums. I paint mainly in acrylic, but also in watercolor, oil and pastel. With acrylics I use a wet palette so the paint stays longer workable. Experimenting with mixed media, adding “stuff” to a painting, gives a change I like. Preferably I work on masonite board.
Trial and error teach me, as do all the mistakes I make.
I take my own photos and go through them for composition, crop and add, delete and mix the subjects until I find a result that pleases me.
After priming it in a light grey color, I bring a background color on. This might be a blue from the sky or a green from pasture or forest, all in a medium tone, so I can go on with darker and lighter values.
Then I transfer the drawing, most of the time using the grid method.
Learning is a constant companion. The painting has to be as I want it: the expressions, the message has to be communicated. And it takes me weeks, months, to finish a painting. Time is not important, important is the message I want to give: care for our environment, care for our wildlife, care for us humankind. It is so much beauty on this earth, we should all make a priority to adore and respect it.
There’s the critique who condemns realism, putting it down as “photographic”, and there’s the persons who condemn abstract, throwing it away as “everybody can scribble this”. And there’s the true art lover who can read the art in every style, can interpret the artists passions, thoughts and strokes.
We can not copy nature. Nature is always greater, full of mysteries. A nature painting can only lead the viewer to look, and fall in awe, of creation. Nature is not only visual. We hear, we smell, we feel, we can taste. Go out into nature and absorb it!
Exploring the subject, a plant, an animal, a scenery, with dedication, observe it and study it, brings discovery of the world around us. We have to search, and to find. To be in awe.
There is always much more in nature. When I look, and see, I know I can not reproduce it, no, it almost feels like I am painting an abstract from what nature shows me.
What is a perfect, a finished painting? I think this doesn’t exist. One artwork might be perfect to somebody, the same work seems imperfect to the other person. That’s the wonderful world of art. It gives endless possibilities, it lives uniqueness.
I wish that each of my paintings tells something to the viewer, brings up a memory, a feeling, sets a wish or let him make a resolution for his life. Then I think all the effort that is in the art work is worth it a thousand-fold.
I am convinced that we have to preserve wildlife habitat and wildlife to save ourselves.
I love to paint my passion: nature and the life in it. It inspires me, gives me joy and a sense of being.
Creation is beyond understanding. It’s a gift we all should appreciate to the highest.
I love all the details nature shows us – and with looking at it, and painting it, the more I appreciate it. A pine needle, a leaf, a stone, see how marvelous they are!
In each of them is an evolution, for millions of years, involved, and we all are part of this. It just fascinates me, I have to admire it, and show and communicate it through my paintings.
I like to show as close as possible what I see in nature – never to be able to copy the beauty, just be in awe. I have a deep respect to these wonders, and I have to paint them as realistic as I can to give them this respect. To me, wildlife art is THE art. We have to wake up and see. See nature with all it’s inhabitants, fauna and flora.
I see it as my duty to paint it and send a message. And I hope it helps to understand the need to change, to safe our oh so wonderful planet. Every little step towards this goal is worthwhile.
What is the goal of my work? I like to remind people about nature around us. And going further: to respect nature, to change the habit of using nature to conserve it. I like the viewer to enter my painting, be one with the scene.
I love the detail I see in nature. Something inner dictates me to paint it. It’s what I have to do.
Bio
Claudia Punter is born in Rome, Italy, to Swiss parents.
She grew up in Switzerland and traveled extensively through
Europe and North Africa.
In 1993 she and her husband with the two sons immigrated to Alberta, Canada.
In 2000 Claudia started with soapstone carving and in December 2013 she began with acrylic painting and soon after added watercolor painting as well.
She attended many workshops. Her teachers Robert Bateman, Terry Isaac, Alex Fong, and Lian Quan Zhen gave her courage to go the way of painting and art, gave her lots of inspiration and help. She is studying art on a daily base, through workshops, books and magazines.
Her tremendous love for all creatures, for people, animals and plants, the whole beauty of nature with all the colors, sounds, smells, tastes, shapes and expressions shows in her art. She loves realism and details.
She is a dedicated naturalist and conservationist. Seeing the beauty in nature, appreciate, honor and respect nature, is her passion. Her art is a visual message to a future where people see and respect nature.
Since 2010 Claudia lives and works in Osoyoos, British Columbia, Canada.
Currently she is a member of "Artists on Main", a member of the Okanagan Art Gallery, a member of the Osoyoos & District Arts Council, a Signature member AFCA of the Federation of Canadian Artists, member of FCA South Okanagan-Similkameen Chapter, the Central Okanagan Chapter and the Toronto Chapter, a Signature member of Artists for Conservation and an Elected Member of the Society of Canadian Artists.
She has a permanent exhibition of paintings at the Okanagan Art Gallery in Osoyoos, BC.
Her work has been in juried and non-juried art shows and galleries in Canada and abroad.
In her own words:
“I like to understand the animal; what it feels and thinks, what it struggles with and what makes it happy. Every single one is unique and I like to show this individuality in my paintings and sculptures.”
“Each piece of art teaches me, reveals me new ideas of how to approach the next one. It’s a constant, fascinating learning path.
I am a passionate painter and sculptor. With my art works I would like to enrich people’s life and the area they live in.”
Gallery Representation & Exhibition Schedule
Okanagan Art Gallery, Osoyoos BC
The Art Gallery, Osoyoos BC
Home Studio/gallery, Osoyoos BC
The Art Gallery, Osoyoos BC
Home Studio/gallery, Osoyoos BC
