In 2004 Claudia married and moved to Finland with her first child. While pregnant with her second child, she made the decision to step away from her professional career to focus on family life. During this time—and with the arrival of her third child—she gradually returned to painting and drawing. What began as a quiet reconnection soon grew into exhibitions, with works that often echoed the language of children’s book illustration.
Divorced in 2008 Claudia continued with her drawings and exhibitions and in 2013 she returned to Brazil where she resumed work in architecture and interior design for a few years. However, by 2016, her desire to fully explore illustration had become undeniable. An invitation to illustrate a children’s book marked a turning point, and she embraced this shift wholeheartedly, continuing alongside her painting practice.
Disappointed with an extreme right-wing government in Brazil and the increase of polarized political points of view, Claudia moved back to Finland with her children, in 2021. Her artistic work has develop into abstract art as Claudia feels the desire to move away from the need of depicting a story or the realism that are so particular to children’s book illustrations. For Claudia, abstraction feels liberating and extremely expressive and meaningful.
In 2025, she completed a Master’s degree in Creativity and Arts in Social and Health Fields. Since then, she has dedicated her time to her artistic practice, illustration, and facilitating creative workshops for well-being—bringing together her lifelong commitment to art with her belief in its power to support and connect people
Claudia V 