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Claire Evanson-Ceppi
Global Village.
For most it is just a newly coined pop-culture phrase. But for
a privileged few like Claire Evanson-Ceppi, the world really is
just a friendly village through which she wonders gathering
experience along the way like eggs in a basket. Born in Curepe,
Trinidad on December 11, 1963, she emigrated with her family to
Canada at the age of six.
While in Canada she auditioned and made the
cut to attend a four-year Visual Fine Arts program at Wexford
Collegiate Institute of the Arts. There nature was allowed to
be nurtured and Claire’s innate talent and passion were shaped
by the study of multiple media from life drawing to graphic
layout and sculpture. Her active student life involved set
design for school theatre performances and naturally her work
was featured at exhibits.
In 1993 love and marriage brought her first
to Zurich (Switzerland), then to Ticino near the Italian
border. This is where she really fell in love. Fully immersed
in Italian culture, she found herself face to face with the
works of the great masters, Michelangelo and DaVinci.
Inspiration was to found at every corner and
her move to the old world breathed new life into a seemingly
stifled as she admits “my passion for art was reborn”. A hop,
skip and a jump east took her to Bali (Indonesia) where her
horizons were broadened by exposure to its diverse art forms
such as contemporary stone carving, beautiful intricate wood
carvings, not to mention traditional Wayang puppets.
Her stroll through the global village has now
made full circle. Nearly three decades later she returned to
the West Indies and as of 2000 has been living on the island of
Tobago along with her husband Fabrizio and their 4 dogs: Punto,
Piega, Contessa and Conte.
Locally her work has been shown at The Art
Gallery (Lowlands, Tobago) specifically at an exhibition in 2008
entitled “Il Piccolo Quadro”.
Her preferred media is pencil with a penchant
for charcoal, and sculpture. She has recently been dabbling in
oil and acrylic.
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