Artist Claudia Zimmerman, has painted on both coasts, returning to Mercer Island ten years ago and returning to MIVAL 3 months ago. She shares a studio with 4 other artists in the Tashiro Kaplan Art Complex in Pioneer Square and also shows at the White Bird Gallery in Cannon Beach and the RiverSea Gallery in Astoria Oregon. She has taught art in the public sector since the early 90’s and now teaches privately. As a painter, she strives to create compositions that comprise both representational and visionary ideals. Allegory and metaphor are her passion.
As a painter of allegory, I am ever fascinated with fairytales and mythology. Rendering meaning and moral in visual form is a many layered endeavour I find challenging and frustrating but never boring. — Claudia Zimmerman, 2021
