I am a British-American multi-disciplinary artist born in Chertsey, United Kingdom. I was raised in The Hague in The Netherlands, Stavanger in Norway, and New Orleans, Louisiana. I traveled the world, before finally settling down in Houston, Texas 10 years ago. 

I was awarded a scholarship to study at Houston Baptist University and graduated with a Master of Fine Arts in Studio Arts. Before my Masters, I graduated with a Bachelor of Studio Art in Painting from The University of Houston. Since then, I have dedicated my time to being a full-time artist and Professor of Visual Arts. 

Using my mediums of mixed-media painting, installation spaces, assemblage sculptures, photography, 3D printing technology, and fashion design I explore my experience with mental health, addiction, and domestic violence. I tackle the stigma surrounding mental illness and addiction.

In addition, I bring awareness to the rampant occurrence of violence against women and human trafficking, which I have experienced first-hand. Lingering in my work, I suggest a deeply spiritual and scientific undertone within the painful situations I describe.

I have exhibited my work worldwide, for instance, I have exhibited my art in Mönchskirche Salzwedel Germany, and London, UK. Recently, in 2021, I exhibited in an international exhibition named "Ex-Libris" at Redbud Gallery in Houston, Texas. In 2019 I was accepted into the Artist in Residency program in Splendora Gardens, Splendora Texas. Whilst working in London, UK I was represented by 15FiftyOne Group. 

Currently, film director, Jeff Faulkinburry (PostPunk Films) is filming a documentary specifically about my art, message, and life story. In addition, my psychosis-inducing installation “Mental Institution Museum” (or “MEM”) has been featured in Christopher Wilson’s new music video, also filmed by Jeff Faulkinburry. If all goes to plan, I will be featured in Paper City Magazine and Memorial Lifestyle Magazine within the year.

Through applying for amnesty through the Violence Against Women Act, I live and work as a naturalized U.S Citizen calling Houston, Texas USA my “forever home”. 

Find out more about me at: www.chloeartstudio.com

Updated: 21/9/2021

Artist's Statement

My art collides with the spiritual glitch in the matrix of the mind.  This is where I am working and what I am influenced by. As an artist, I enjoy the mystery of the veiled, to take the viewer on an unknown journey to expose a truth that is hard to swallow. Mental health and addiction is a place where compassion should breed and I intend to help birth it through my art.

Using paint, objects, and spaces I design an atmosphere that objectifies mental illness and addiction as crude, colorful, emotional, and in-your-face. It makes you look at itself as a breathing monster, that is alive in today’s society. My work demands the viewer to think about their own and other people’s mental health and behavior. My work asks the viewer “Are you happy?”.

The point of my work is to help others understand mental illness and addiction. Whether you relate or don’t, understanding it is important because it is all around you. Denying it makes the world’s problem worse. In this universe of cell phones and solitude, we must connect. Through my artwork, I hope to connect people to information and feelings that bring people together in a conversation about mental health and addiction. With a human connection in mind, my goal is it breeds compassion and understanding.

My work meets

the spiritual glitch in the matrix. 

Cellular neurology 

contemplating molecular structures in psychiatry, 

and

 ferocious abusive monsters 

eating your soul; 

You will fear for your sanity.

A painterly universe from heaven and hell, 

all in the same earthly realm. 

Psych meds required to comprehend 

the fusion and confusion 

in my artwork.