I am pleased to share that La Gazette de Kuala Lumpur published, in 2026, an article by Meghane Mathieu, art critic, Paris, dedicated to my work.
My sincere thanks to Meghane Mathieu for her thoughtful text and to La Gazette de Kuala Lumpur for this publication and visibility.
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Claire Lassonnery’s work explores a practice rooted in patience, material knowledge and repetition. Layer after layer, the artist develops surfaces in oil and pigment on canvas where opacity gives way to transparency and where colour emerges through depth rather than surface effect.
Her paintings are built through a slow process of accumulation and refinement. Pigments interact, sometimes merging, sometimes resisting one another, allowing light to circulate within the composition. Through this approach, the pictorial space expands beyond the surface and becomes an immersive perceptual field.
Lassonnery’s work can be understood as a form of material abstraction — atmospheric abstraction — where gesture, time and matter remain inseparable. Her paintings function as contemplative spaces, inviting the viewer into a silent dialogue with the work.
Between control and surrender, discipline and intuition, Claire Lassonnery develops a practice of contemporary art in which the material ultimately guides the outcome.
Meghane Mathieu
Art critic, Paris
Claire Lassonnery
French contemporary abstract artist
Atmospheric abstraction