Hi!
Thank you so much for taking the time to read a little bit more about me. I am so glad you are here! My name is Claire Victoria DeVoe Rooney. I am the Designer and Creator for my brand DeVoe. I grew up spoiled rotten, a few blocks from the beach. Fishing, skating and surfing…chasing the shadows of the mangroves—under rustling palms, in the quiet, fishing town of Naples, Florida. Surfing and serving on mission trips took me and my family all over the globe and those experiences are certainly sources of inspiration for my art. My brother in law once told me that I am like a beautiful scorching rainbow full of passion, love and admiration going 100 mph towards the apex of my creativity only to be inspired to further my search and that made me chuckle so I’m sharing it here with you all. I consider myself a life long learner and even moreso now that I’ve been run over by the grace train, madly in love and married eleven years to my best friend and a mama to five little ones with two in Heaven and most importantly an apprentice of Jesus.
I gravitate towards creating mixed media paintings as a healthy outlet to express my raw emotions through hard seasons of life and one could say I'm slightly obsessed with a printmaking technique called mono printing. One day I got bored with all my mono prints on canvas confined to a wall so I took some down and started ripping them off the frame and sewing them into handbags. This shift from 2D to 3D was a critical part in the birth of my brand DeVoe, which I consider functional fine art and it is so awesome!
Those who know, shop DeVoe. ;)
The DeVoe Haus is based in Jacksonville, Florida.
“The key ingredient of all her artwork is that inimitable essence of Claire. ‘Radiant, confident, graceful power’: DeVoe".
"the ocean is full of energetic movements, hard to describe patterns and is constantly changing."
Check out my recent interview with Icemule Coolers.
In her painting studio, she uses a printmaking technique called mono-printing, for this process Claire uses top of the line exterior latex acrylic paints and water. She is obsessed with the mystery behind the layering of translucent colors throughout her process. Claire now takes her large scale mono-prints and turns them into functional art for everyday use.
