Claudine Loquen


Claudine Marie Claire Loquen, known as Claudine Loquen , is a French painter in the naïve style.
Several of her works are held in French and foreign museums.

Biography

Early life

Loquen is born in Sainte-Adresse on 22 February 1965. She studied at the Ecole des Beaux Arts of Le Havre.

Career

In 2003, her first exhibition took place in Café Les Deux Magots in Paris.
Colombe Anouilh, on 8 December 2014, awarded her the Jean Anouilh prize for her work on canvas Young women with wolves presented at the Salon d'automne, in Paris. In 2021, still at the Salon d'Automne, she was awarded the Naive Art prize for a painting
In the shadow of the flowering maidens.
From 2021, she presides over the Naive Art section at the Salon d'automne in Paris, bringing together some twenty artists from the naive art
movement.

Themes

Loquen mainly paints women and historical figures, drawing her inspiration from literature, history, poetry and fairytales.
She has made the wolf her animal symbol.
Gemellity and sorority are also recurring themes in her work.

Selected exhibitions

Solo exhibitions