Tradition and contemporary practice are not opposites. One is the foundation. The other is the weight placed on it.
I trained in traditional Asian lacquer techniques. That discipline — the patience, the layering, the respect for drying time — is embedded in everything I do now.
What changed is the intention.
I no longer follow the rules of lacquer as craft. I use what that training gave me to build something that belongs to now.
Oil and pigment on canvas. A fixed compositional grammar. A reduced vocabulary used at depth.
Contemporary art does not require rupture. It requires precision. And the willingness to carry a tradition forward without being imprisoned by it.
That is where tradition meets what I need it to become. Not a revolution. A long conversation.
This work is available through selected galleries in Malaysia, Singapore, and Europe.
Claire Lassonnery
French contemporary abstract artist
Atmospheric abstraction