About Claire Lassonnery
Claire Lassonnery is a French contemporary artist who has been based in Asia for over thirty years. A Doctor of Pharmacy by training, she first explored the invisible structures of matter through science, before translating that same precision into an artistic practice that is both demanding and deeply sensorial. Trained in traditional lacquer techniques in Vietnam, she reinvents this ancient craft as a contemporary language. Pigmented, layered, polished, sculpted — lacquer becomes a living material, a slow painting where each stratum reveals a dialogue between light, depth, and transparency.
Her work unfolds in series — Earth, Flowers and Wood — each offering a different way to explore the world: seen from above, felt in the material, sensed in the intimate.
Her pieces are part of private collections in Asia and Europe, and have been exhibited in Kuala Lumpur, Singapore, and Monaco.
At the intersection of science, voluntary exile, and material research, Claire Lassonnery creates a rare, quiet, embodied form of abstraction — a singular body of work born of a sharp eye and a highly refined gesture.