Claudia V

Artist | Illustrator | Creative Workshops for Well-Being

Supporting Board Member for Helsinki International Artists Association (HIAA) since 2024

Degrees

MA in Creativity and Arts in Social and Health Fields – Metropolia University of Applied Sciences, Helsinki, Finland – Master in Arts and Culture

Thesis: Time Constraints and Creativity: Supporting Informal Caregivers’ Competences in Carrying out Creative Activities with People with Cognitive Decline

BA in Architecture and Urban Design of the Federal University of Ceará, Fortaleza, Brazil, 1989/1994

Group Exhibitions

Vienna, The Last Abstraction Gallery- There’s no Rabbit in my Artwork II – 2026

Helsinki, Take Me Home Galleria- The Invisible Rainbow – 2026

Helsinki, The Blue Verve Gallery- group exhibition Practices of Ideation – 2026

Helsinki, Katve Art Space- group exhibition More Than Human – 2026

Helsinki, HIAA Fest, Cable Factory- group exhibition – 2025

Helsinki, Church of Lauttasaari- group exhibition The Price of Peace – 2025

Espoo, Entresse Library- Tender Contemplation solo exhibition – 2024

Natuzzi Fortaleza Showcase – 2018

Other Exhibitions (solo)

Nousiainen Library 2010, Nousiainen Library 2009, Kemiö Library 2008, Parainen Library 2008, Laitila Library 2008, Nummi Library 2008, Masku Library 2007, Hämeenlinna Library 2006, Janakkala Library 2006

Born in São Paulo, Brazil, a self-taught artist, since early childhood I knew that my full expression manifested through visual art. Graduated in Architecture and Urban Design, I worked in my own practice for around 15 years in total as an architect and interior designer.
In 2004 I moved to Finland with my first child. While carrying my second, I made the decision to step away from my professional career to focus on family life. During this time—and with the arrival of the third child—I 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.
I continued with my drawings and exhibitions and in 2013 I returned to Brazil where I resumed work in architecture and interior design for a few more years. However, by 2016, the desire to fully explore my artistic side had become undeniable. An invitation to illustrate a children’s book marked a turning point, and I embraced this shift wholeheartedly, continuing alongside with painting.
Disappointed with an extreme right-wing government in Brazil at the time, and the increase of polarized political points of view, I moved back to Finland with my family, in 2021. My artistic work has now develop into a mix of figurative and abstract – 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 me, my style now feels liberating and expressive, always having nature as a starting point.
In 2025, I completed a Master’s degree in Creativity and Arts in Social and Health Fields. Since then, I have dedicated time mostly to my artistic practice, occasional illustration, and a few times a month, facilitating creative workshops for well-being—bringing together my commitment to art with the belief in its power to boost quality of life.