ABOUT 

SHOWS

Observing and reflecting on her surroundings, Claire Sevaux expressive and strongly pigmented oil paintings capture psychological scenes, a stolen moment, a pulse of life. She is of French and British nationality, lives and works in Paris and trained as an architect in New York City.

To transmit her perceptions of reality, she sketches her subjects in the city, public gardens, trains, open landscapes and museums. She paints mostly in oil with expressive brushstrokes, allowing her intuition to guide the flow of colour and movement. Tension results from the spontaneous paint work and a carefully constructed space.

Her subjects are emotional responses. She re-appropriates subjects from traditional art history and the woman is no longer an object of desire but an active participant, full of life and craving. Some city paintings convey the fragmentary reality of our perceptions, there is solitude, speed, memory all at once. 

Open Studio, May 2026

Jackson’s Art Prize 2026 Competition: selected in the extended long list  

Area gallery Paris: Group exhibition on the theme of Idioms. March 2025

Hotel de L’Industrie, Paris: group exhibition with ArTchipel collective. November 2023

Mairie du 6ème. Paris: group exhibitions with ArTchipel collective. December-January 2024

SEVAUX ARCHITECTURE
EDUCATION

ARB Registered Architect from 2000 to 2015. UK

Registered architect:  Ordre des Architectes, Id France 2013-2022

Founded in 2000, the architectural firm Sevaux Architecture, first established in London and later in Paris, specializes in high end residential architecture and interior design. The projects consist in full renovation and extensions of town houses, apartments and holiday homes.

The bespoke design of the spaces and joinery, along with the development of rhythms, colours, materials, and textures, all contribute to the personality and emotion of the place.  The Sevaux Architecture style is rigorous, understated, and welcoming. 

December 1999.     Architectural Association School of Architecture London : Part3 professional practice license.

1992- 96.                Diane de Valou Studio:  Academic drawing and painting techniques. Paris    

1989 – 92.              Graduate School of Architecture Planning and Preservation, Columbia University, New York : Master in Architecture     

1984 – 88.              Barnard College, Columbia University, New York: Bachelor of Arts, major: Architecture