Meet the artist

Sophie Jouve

Sophie Jouve is a French artist whose unique path led her from the world of teaching to a life fully devoted to artistic creation. Born into an environment rich with artistic heritage—between her grandparents’ antique shop and her grandfather’s painting studio—she first pursued a career as an English teacher before returning to her creative roots.

Exploring Light and Transparency
After several years working with glass—through fusing and blowing techniques—Sophie Jouve sought to carry the transparency and luminosity of glass into painting. She has since developed a personal technique using inks, gold and silver pigments on cotton paper, giving rise to abstract, dreamlike landscapes where light and material meet and flow together.

A Dance Between Control and Letting Go
Her creative process embraces chance and spontaneity. Water and pigment interact directly with the paper, blending in ways that often escape prediction. Sophie Jouve describes her process as a transformation of energy and imagination into matter, where each work evolves freely and intuitively.

A Language of Lines and Circles
Her compositions often revolve around two symbolic geometric elements: the line and the circle. The horizontal line evokes a horizon—an opening toward infinity—while the circle acts like a window or telescope, framing the viewer’s gaze and inviting intimate contemplation. These recurring forms reinforce the meditative and poetic dimension of her work.

Art as an Invitation to Contemplation
Sophie Jouve’s artworks evoke imagined landscapes, emotional territories, and fluid energies. They invite the viewer to reshape the elements of the world, to build new, unreal yet possible spaces—ones we can believe in, even if only momentarily. Her works are an invitation to slow down, reflect, and reconnect with the invisible.