Damien CHAUVIER

BIOGRAPHY

Damien Chauvier (b. 1981) lives and works in France. He studied at the École d’Arts Appliqués de Gironde in Bordeaux before setting out, at eighteen, on an expansive personal journey shaped by travel across land and sea. These formative experiences continue to inform his artistic language.

Through painting, Chauvier translates his singular path into visionary landscapes that reflect both intimate emotion and universal longing. His practice explores the tension between the desire for escape and the human need for roots and belonging—creating spaces that feel at once deeply personal and collectively familiar. His works have been exhibited internationally, including in Japan, Morocco, London and Paris.

TECHNIQUE

Chauvier constructs immersive, dreamlike scenes that hover between reality and imagination; and evoke Edenic landscapes charged with longing, melancholy and quiet joy. Whether these scenes exist in memory or fantasy remains deliberately ambiguous, allowing viewers to project their own emotional narratives onto the canvas.

His compositions unfold like poetic fragments from a hero’s journey: lush, vibrant and saturated with warmth. Rich color palettes and opulent natural forms reveal his affinity for surrealism, while the careful orchestration of light, depth, and atmosphere creates a sense of suspended time. Through these imagined gardens and hidden realms, Chauvier invites the viewer into a contemplative space: an antechamber to worlds shaped by desire, memory and the enduring pursuit of wonder.