Don’t be misled by this sweet girl though, seemingly innocent, drawing nice colorful situations with her pencils. Her mind seems to go into different thinking modes when creating, from chaos to order, tough to soft, intimate to extravert, attentive to distractive, self assured to insecure. Resulting in fascinating thoughts, ideas, then drawings. Sometimes grim and dark and then suddenly sweet and soft again, but always with razor sharp comments.

Her work these days can be found in numerous forms and publications, t-shirts from Japanese label Coigirl, her own self published ‘Bloos’ books, TV guide covers, columns and so on. Claudie seems omnipresent yet elusive…

Make sure to check out her latest project ‘fun yeahyeah’ which was created in collaboration with Anthony Burrill a.k.a. Bless the Artist by exchanging drawings and images over the internet.

Part of this piece was based on an article which appeared in Amsterdam’s newspaper ‘Het Parool’. Should you wish to contact Claudie please send her a mail at claudiedecleen@hotmail.com