New video that features artist and art instructor Clara Berta

Clara Berta hosts regular art classes at her downtown studio.

Artist Biography

Clara Berta

is a passionate, award-winning mixed-media artist of Hungarian heritage. Inspired by her love of nature and the beauty she sees all around, her highly textural abstract works often evoke the deep blues of the ocean she loves, or the golden glow of a Tuscan sunset from her trips to Italy. 

Berta has concentrated on abstract expressionism through painting and unique monotypes.  Her paintings and prints explore themes such as the ebb and flow of memory, the significance of personal heritage, renewal, the passing of physical time, desire, passion, and love. Her large-scale abstract works often include recycled reminders of her travels, bits of fabric, or eco-friendly / organic materials such as palm bark. Manipulating the texture with many layers of paint, she will work and re-work her canvases, layering, scraping, piling up textures to give added dimension, creating works that intrigue and invite the viewer in for closer inspection.

 Believing that art offers therapeutic relief from the challenges and stress people face in their daily lives, Berta shares her beliefs and abilities by teaching advanced painting techniques and collage classes in her beautiful sunny loft/studio in downtown Los Angeles. Growing up in a culturally rich and stimulating environment, a Hungarian enclave in Romania, Berta moved to Chicago at the age of eleven.   She relocated to Los Angeles when she began her formal education, receiving a BA in Psychology from Antioch University.