Marie Hugo
Painter
Marie Hugo is an Anglo-French artist who lives between London, Paris and the South of France. Born into an illustrious family, she grew up surrounded by artists. She expresses herself through a variety of techniques, with a predilection for Indian ink on canvas or paper.
After completing her training in France, her passion for the Orient led her to live in Asia for many years, fascinated by its landscapes. His style and inspiration are reminiscent of traditional Chinese art, and his work can be described as a marriage between East and West.
Marie Hugo was born in the Petite Camargue, on the edge of a nature reserve and on a wild land where her family has lived for generations and where she still loves to go. She studied lithography and engraving at the École des Beaux-Arts in Montpellier, and also learned a great deal from her father, the painter Jean Hugo. While her black-and-white ink work reveals her training as an engraver, her mastery of color led her to illustrate La Fontaine’s Fables for the Imprimerie Nationale.
“Don’t pass under the tree: it cries sweetness too heavy to bear!”
In the 1980s, she painted what she calls “interior landscapes” in tempera, as well as large-scale murals for public places and hotels in the Far East. In the late 1990s, she returned to work in her father’s studio, painting with ink, water and pigments. This experimental way of expressing herself proved to be a new departure for her. Leaves, bamboo, insects, lotus, stones, water and twigs became the central motifs of her art.
