I did this drawing of a male nude at Brock unfinished then took it home during the summer and completed it by doodling of a variety of lines unconsciously.  A friend suggested I put this into a poster form because of its uniqueness.  Instead I am creating 8 x 10 inch transfer art copies of it plus I have created art cards of this image as well.

Carolyn Wren wrote for show ?COLLECTED STORIES side by eacy? at the Impact Artists? Gallery in Buffalo, New York, USA in 2002:  ?Claudette Losier?s work, entitled ?Happy Birthday?, is a grouping of many small panels placed randomly on the wall.  The 54 panels are photo transfers of variations of the same snapshot of a family birthday party.  This haunting work epitomizes the dysfunctional family, sitting around the table waiting for the wish that the candled cake will bring.  Losier, the third of four girls, and her mother are caught in the picture while her father snaps the photo.  Losier captures a strange emptiness of a very familiar scene in her treatment of the subject.  The technique lends itself to ethereal outcomes and Losier makes the most of it.  By cropping and enlarging, she reduces some areas to mere abstraction.  Unlike Simizu?s idealized memories of her aunt, these blurred figures are isolated, and unable to interact with each other.  They stand alone in a group of introspection and grief.  Like clues in a riddle, the viewer is given hints of the tension in the narrative.  Family values and the clich? of the happy home are in question, and Losier?s catharsis enables the viewer to reflect on middle class belief structures.?

In the 90?s I went through a cow phase and would stop to take pictures of cows on my bike rides to use in my paintings.  This transfer art work was a collection of images of cows from my pictures where I used the bondex transfer technique to remove the toner onto these pieces of jean patches with glue on one side.  I collaged them on board and added some oil paints.  This work sold at an art auction.

Carolyn Wren wrote for show ?COLLECTED STORIES side by eacy? at the Impact Artists? Gallery in Buffalo, New York, USA in 2002:  ?Claudette Losier?s work, entitled ?Happy Birthday?, is a grouping of many small panels placed randomly on the wall.  The 54 panels are photo transfers of variations of the same snapshot of a family birthday party.  This haunting work epitomizes the dysfunctional family, sitting around the table waiting for the wish that the candled cake will bring.  Losier, the third of four girls, and her mother are caught in the picture while her father snaps the photo.  Losier captures a strange emptiness of a very familiar scene in her treatment of the subject.  The technique lends itself to ethereal outcomes and Losier makes the most of it.  By cropping and enlarging, she reduces some areas to mere abstraction.  Unlike Simizu?s idealized memories of her aunt, these blurred figures are isolated, and unable to interact with each other.  They stand alone in a group of introspection and grief.  Like clues in a riddle, the viewer is given hints of the tension in the narrative.  Family values and the clich? of the happy home are in question, and Losier?s catharsis enables the viewer to reflect on middle class belief structures.?

This transfer drawing is a reuse of image of another art piece called Garden in my Heart recycling one art piece to create another.  The title of the piece comes from a Robert Frost poem. 

This transfer drawing was inspired by a performance dance that I did for Brock University?s Spring Festival. 

This picture is a close up of this piece completed in 2001 and inspired from pictures of a Japanese Garden we visited in our Trip to Vancouver, BC.   I used both the polyclens and bondex methods of transfers in this piece adding monochromatic pencil crayons of blues and greens to try to recreate on paper this lovely and peaceful Japanese Garden.   In the middle of this garden was a green pool of water which I left the center of the piece green to represent this pool for reflection. 

This piece was completed in 2001 and inspired from pictures of a Japanese Garden we visited in our Trip to Vancouver, BC.   I used both the polyclens and bondex methods of transfers in this piece adding monochromatic pencil crayons of blues and greens to try to recreate on paper this lovely and peaceful Japanese Garden.   In the middle of this garden was a green pool of water which I left the center of the piece green to represent this pool for reflection.

This piece is a close up and was completed for my 2000 solo show at the Clarington Art Center.  It was also included in my show Transfer Stories in May 2006 for Arts Hamilton.  It is wall size that hangs from ceiling to floor.  The inspiration for this piece is the season Fall and trees and our cycling adventures during this time of year in the Hamilton area.  There is a quote in this painting about enjoying things we see without labeling them hence the title sense impressions.  

After Brock I stared to explore self portrait like Van Go and the other great masters but mine were 3 X 5 inches.   As I was painting this little paintings I would document the process by letting it dry and making a colour copy of that stage of the painting.  I used this documentation to create a wall size installation that was exhibited at the Hamilton Artists Inc.  I now can use these copies as a teaching tool.  I also used some of the photos from this series to create another series of 8 self portraits 8 x 10 inches using the polyclens transfer technique.  I love the marks created by this technique that heighten the emotions of the sitter in the photos.   One of these transfer faces was submitted to the Clarington Art Show and won best in show in 1999. 

Another artist gave me her pictures of the Lister Building in Hamilton, the oldest shopping mall in Canada, so that I may make copies to produce these 4 transfer art pictures and participate in Skydragon?s Lister Block Project.   Its was to raise awareness with the public to stop the building?s owners from tearing this lovely building down only to recreate a replica of it.     

This piece was completed in 2007.   The inspiration for this piece was my pictures of a bon fire created with my Dad.  It is 8 X 10 inches.

This piece was created for my show called Transfer Stories at Arts Hamilton in May 2006.   The inspiration for this piece was my pictures of a bon fire created with my Dad.  It is 12 X 36 inches.

This piece was created for my show called Transfer Stories at Arts Hamilton in May 2006.   The inspiration for this piece was my pictures of snorkeling in the Dominican in 2004 and a bon fire created with my Dad.  It is 12 X 36 inches.

This piece was completed for my 2000 solo show at the Clarington Art Center.  It was also included in my show Transfer Stories in May 2006 for Arts Hamilton.  It is wall size.