Claudine Marie Claire Loquen (born 1965), known as Claudine Loquen [Klodin loʊkən], is a French painter in the naïve style.[1]
Several of her works are held in French and foreign museums (Musée Daubigny in Auvers-sur-Oise, Musée international d'art naïf in Magog, Musée d'art spontané in Brussels).[2][3]
In 2003, her first exhibition took place in Café Les Deux Magots in Paris.[6]
Colombe Anouilh, on 8 December 2014, awarded her the Jean Anouilh prize for her work on canvas Young women with wolves (Jeunes filles aux loups) 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 (A l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs).
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.[7]
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.[8]
Gemellity and sorority are also recurring themes in her work.
Selected exhibitions
Solo exhibitions
2023 : Sisters...and stories, Centre Culturel Jean-Pierre Fabrègue, Saint-Yrieix-la-Perche, France
2021 : Wolves, Les peintres du Marais Galery, Paris
