Claudia Toutain-Dorbec

Claudia is a contemporary, multi-media, American artist, mostly known for her botanical work, who includes photography, painting, drawing, collage, and sculpture in her creative processes. A book will be published in April 2011 on her most recent project at the Monet Gardens in Giverny, France. By special invitation, based on her previous Southwest project, she was provided a private studio for over a five month period at Claude Monet's Gardens and special access to the gardens where she created a huge body of work that includes both botanical portraits and general garden photography.