Claudia Roth (1955–2024) was a Swiss painter whose practice centred on process, physicality, and the immediacy of perception. Between 2011 and 2016, she worked intensively in large square formats whose dimensions were determined by the limits of her own body. Approaching each canvas without preparatory sketches or fixed compositions, her paintings emerged through improvisation, guided by intuition, movement, and a search for tension, presence, and a lived sense of the moment. Roth’s method was direct and continuous: painting without interruption, often for hours or through the night, using broad brushes and highly diluted oil paints. Layers remained visible, traces were never fully erased, and the surface recorded the full duration of its making. The act of painting became a physical, almost performative gesture, at times described as a dance in front of the canvas. Rejecting representation, Roth consciously avoided recognisable forms. Whenever figurative associations appeared, she would dissolve them again, maintaining openness and ambiguity within the work. Her paintings invite a non-prescriptive encounter, allowing viewers to navigate between perception, emotion, and interpretation. Throughout her career, Roth exhibited widely in Switzerland. Her works are characterised by a delicate balance between control and chance, density and lightness, presence and disappearance, offering an experience that is as much bodily as it is visual.