Bio

Anne-Claire Fleer is a bold and energetic female empowerment artist who uses canvas, the female body and photography to create her unique pieces of art. Her art is colorful, chaotically structured and contrasting, her approach is intuitive and her main media acrylic and spray paint. As a Highly Sensitive Person (HSPer) the canvas is her main outlet to process stimuli from the outside as well as her complex and rich inner life. Her interest in exploring the human body comes from an ongoing obsession with own body limitations, after having been forced to give up aspirations for a tennis career at an early age due to injuries. She aims at creating unique experiences for her customers by giving them a day to remember, exploring how their bodies blend into her artworks on canvas. To make the experience one not to forget she uses her photography skills to make it last forever. Those anonymous photographs of the body then form the basis for more art and more exploration available to the public. What started as an experiment three years ago has now become a way of turning female bodies into living works of art to help all generations of women all over the world remember how beautiful they are. With her unique work she's been featured in Metro, the Daily Mail, TRT world, multiple Dutch tv channels, newspapers and magazines. She has also been part of art fairs as The Other Art Fair Los Angeles and Bristol. To get your own body painted by Anne- Claire you can expect a waiting list of at least four months. She creates art to experience freedom, using colors to say what she can’t express in words. Being able to share that part of herself and involving others to find their own story is what drives and excites her.

Statement

My name is Anne-Claire Fleer and I empower women through body painting. Which women? All women in all forms, shapes, ages and colours. It is my mission to contribute to a worldwide shift in perception when it comes to our body image, as I believe that everyone has the right to feel comfortable in their own skin. Up until four years ago I was in the corporate world of Finance/IT – then I burned out. For the first time in my life I started paying attention to what was giving me energy, and what was draining it. This is when I rediscovered my love for art. Now I'm a professional female empowerment body paint artist and I paint models in the exact same style as my abstract paintings. I then photograph the women in front of the paintings, and frame them in such a way that it is hard to identify where the body ends and the artwork starts. The focus is on the body, not the face, so that the women can't be recognised. For the models, it’s exciting and empowering to know that it’s their body in my images, but no one else knows! Because I'm not classically trained, I feel all the freedom in the world to follow where my energy takes me and create without textbook limitations. What started as an experiment three years ago has now become a way of turning female bodies into living works of art to help all generations of women all over the world remember how beautiful they are.