Zoé Ouvrier

Zoe Ouvrier graduated from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris and lived in the capital for twenty-five years. Since November 2019, she has been living and working in Saint-Paul-de-Vence.

She uses the etching technique to give plywood its new wooden nature. She combines this technique with painting and drawing. The imprinted bark evokes skin, life and the original matrix from which the forest and humanity are made. Her work allows us to see and touch a three-dimensional space between nature and texture.

For over 20 years, Zoé Ouvrier has been denouncing the imbalance of human impact and its uprooting. All her work revolves around this sensitivity and a possible opening to freedom.
As soon as she graduated from the Beaux-Arts, she gained international recognition. Some collectors commissioned her to create imposing works, decorating the four walls of a single room, for bedrooms or dining rooms. She invites those who enter to travel through her work, to listen to the forest as it changes with the seasons, to the sound of the wind or of wildlife…