Healing Through Emotional Art – Basel, Switzerland

My name is Clare, and my art begins where words fail. Painting has been both a necessity and a survival instinct — a way to confront the weight of trauma and memory when language collapses. Each work is a record of what lingers: silence, rupture, and the estranged self.

 

Through layering, fragmentation, and raw contrasts, I echo the fractured landscapes within — where faces emerge and vanish, and colors clash and dissolve. My practice charts the shifting terrain of trauma, giving form to emotions too complex to name while holding both wound and healing, pain, and resilience.

 

Though deeply personal, my art speaks to many people. My art is an expression of endurance — an effort to carry what is heavy and to find strength, beauty, and fragments of light within the darkness. I never considered myself an artist with any talent, but my therapist encouraged me to use my artwork as a pathway towards recovery. My gratitude for that guidance will be everlasting.