Marie-Claire Baud de Trey is the daughter of famous French Swiss composer and conductor Henry Baud, who, among other orchestras, headed the ‘Orchestre des Concerts Colonne’ in Paris. He was also a consumate violinist, a pianist, and a painter.

Following her father’s footsteps, Marie-Claire brilliantly completed her musical studies at the Conservatoir de Musique of Lausanne, as well as her art studies at the prestigious Academie des Beaux Arts also in Lausanne.

Having been raised in cold, snow covered Switzerland, she became, at an early age, fascinated by those countries were summers never end. She traveled with her father to such bewildering places as the Greek islands, Morocco, the Caribbean, and Tahiti. She understood the music of Ravel, Debussy, de Falla, Faure as a celebration of the beauty and the exhuberance of nature.

Eager to free her artistic expression, she traveled throughout the Caribbean and Mexico before settling on the pristine tropical island of Holbox, in the Gulf of Mexico. Away from technological madness, she works in a studio surrounded by coconut trees, hibiscus, banana trees and bougainvillas, overlooking the ever changing waters of the Caribbean sea.

In this rainbow of colors, she paints the serene  paradises of her fantasy while listening to Vivaldi or Bach, her love for music remaining as indispensable as when she was young girl listening in the aisles to her father’s conducting.

The paintings of Marie-Claire Baud de Trey grace the walls of collectors throughout Europe as well as the Americas.