His first exhibition goes a long way back – it took place in Toulouse in 1975.
In 1980 he moved to Paris where he worked on design of printed fabrics while continuing to paint.
In 1984 and 1985 he created and presented two collections of painted ladies’ garments.
Regular exhibitions followed both in Paris and other places in France until 1989. From 1998 to 2003 he set up a business venture in Minorca without giving up his artistic work.
The artists that have had most influence on Claude Eloi are Cezanne, Klee, De Stael and Rothko. Since 2003 Claude has returned to abstraction, small sizes and sculpture without giving up his old research.
As if released by the destruction of his own work he finds new force – mixing different techniques, integrating fabrics – in a nutshell it is a new start.
Joseph
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