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. Brock University also purchased her "On Your Mark" chalk drawing from her graduating show. Since 2005, Claudette has been pursuing her
art career full time that also includes teaching and modelling for
art classes. 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 splendour 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, landscapes, still life, city scapes, and transfer art.
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 Philharmonic Orchestra'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”. In January 2014, Claudette's painting “Night Vision #3 was purchased by the Ontario Government as part of their permanent collection.
Losier's art has been published: 2004 TVCOGECO 10 minute interview tape of show “Where Beauty Lies…”, 2009 book “Neopop 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 group shows, Burlington Art Centre Art Ectera shop, and in Hamilton at: Art Gallery of Hamilton’s Art Shop, Centre3 in, Humblepie Shop, Hamilton Art Store and Lister's Arts. She is a member of the Artists Network group in Toronto and exhibits in Toronto through this organization. Her art can be found in both corporate and private collections in Canada and the United States, and in governments such as the Toronto City Hall and Ontario Government.
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 Philharmonic Orchestra'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”. In January 2014, Claudette's painting “Night Vision #3 was purchased by the Ontario Government as part of their permanent collection.
Losier's art has been published: 2004 TVCOGECO 10 minute interview tape of show “Where Beauty Lies…”, 2009 book “Neopop 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 group shows, Burlington Art Centre Art Ectera shop, and in Hamilton at: Art Gallery of Hamilton’s Art Shop, Centre3 in, Humblepie Shop, Hamilton Art Store and Lister's Arts. She is a member of the Artists Network group in Toronto and exhibits in Toronto through this organization. Her art can be found in both corporate and private collections in Canada and the United States, and in governments such as the Toronto City Hall and Ontario Government.