Bio – Claudette Losier
Born and raised in Oshawa Ontario in 1963. Claudette took art through High school and won the Grade 13th art award and sold her first oil painting for $40 of a Old Dutch Scene with cheese still life on table.   Claudette later studied art at Brock University and received her Honours BA in Fine Arts in 1989.   Since 2005, Claudette has been pursuing her art career full time that also includes teaching and modelling for animation and illustration art schools like Sheridan and Seneca College.   There is a need in me to create and have a sense of connection with the Creative Spirit and to beauty, and through my art to pass that inspiration for something greater than ourselves to others.   Losier's floral paintings have been described as “breathtaking splendor of pure colours in the abstract form of flowers, created with richly patterned light with an abandonment to patterns in nature.” However, she is not strictly a floral artists and likes to create art using various subject matter such as athletic figurative, semi abstraction, landscapes, still life, city scapes, transfer art, t-shirts silkscreens and now creature creations. 
She has won art awards in Juried Shows in Ontario including 2 best in shows, a Gerald Gunter Humanity Award, plus one Honoury Mention in International Juried show on-line, and recently in 2011 the Toronto City Purchase Award of transfer oil painting “CinderPoppy.”  In 2012 her painting “Night Vision” was accepted and purchase by Dundas Valley School of Art for their juried event called Artist's Connection and will travel through the Hamilton Wentworth Elementary & Secondary Schools for three years or longer.  In 2013 she received Honorary Mention Award for “Give Us Our Daily Bread” at the Women's Art Association's 117th Juried Show at the Art Gallery of Hamilton. Also in 2013 she was contacted by Hamilton PhilharmonicOrchestra's Composer in Residence, Abigail Richardson-Schulte, for a portrait painting of local Hamilton person to inspire her new piece for orchestra music based on Hamilton art. Claudette painted new painting of her friend Robert on Barton Street that was exhibited on April 20th on the HPO concert entitled “Fiesta”. Losier's art has been published: 2004 TVCOGECO 10 minute interview tape of show “Where Beauty Lies…”, 2009 book “Neo Pop Realism Starz 21st Century ART” by Nadia Russ,  in the Elaine Fleck Gallery Spring and Fall catalogues since April 2010, the Arabella Spring 2013 magazine article “Artists Who Paint Flowers”, and just recently in the Hamilton Tourist 2013 magazine with her new city painting “Busy Intersection” on same page with letter from Minister of Tourism. 
Her art is selling at: Tagart Gallery in St. Catharines, Elaine Fleck Gallery in Toronto through the spring and fall catalogue, Burlington Art Centre Art Ectera shop, Art Gallery of Hamilton’s Art Shop, Centre3 in Hamilton, and Burlington's Artists Walk.  As of February 2013 she has her own art gallery with coop members called “Artrageous” at 243 James Street North part of the growing James Street North every second Friday of the month Crawl night! Her art can be found in both corporate and private collections in Canada and the United States. 

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