Claudia Malacrida

I’m a returning artist, following a busy career and family life. As a younger woman, I trained privately in Victoria, and at the University of Calgary in Fine Arts, and I continue to learn through workshops and experimentation.

The return to making art has been joyous, bringing me back to an earlier, less distracted self, and helping me to see a world that, despite its trauma, remains exquisitely beautiful. Painting is seeing, feeling, immersing, and being transported, and I hope to share that feeling in my paintings.

Mostly, I paint the Canadian West, where natural beauty abounds. I’m captured by the clear, brilliant light of the Prairies, with its massive skies and otherworldly vistas, and enchanted by the serene glow of the West Coast, with its gentle interplay between sea, sand, forest, and calming, nurturing light. I paint these places in hopes of sharing the joy, majesty and solace that nature gives us.