In 2004 the artist married and moved to Finland with her first child. While pregnant with her second, 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 more years. However, by 2016, her desire to fully explore her artistic side 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 at that time, and the increase of polarized political points of view, the artist moved back to Finland with her children, in 2021. Her artistic work has now develop into abstract 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 the artist, abstraction feels liberating and extremely expressive and meaningful, always having nature as a starting point.
In 2025, she completed a Master’s degree in Creativity and Arts in Social and Health Fields. Since then, the artist 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 connect people and boost quality of life.
Claudia V 