Olivia de Posson (b. 1982, London) is a Belgian artist whose work unfolds at the meeting point between the invisible and form.

Her path did not begin with a plan to become an artist.

Painting entered her life first as an inner necessity — a way of listening, of staying close to what was moving within. For years, it remained a private, intimate practice.

In 2017, during a period of deep inner listening, something became clear: painting was not simply an activity, but a vocation — not an idea to pursue, but a truth to live.

What followed was not a sudden leap, but a gradual embodiment.

Time to travel, to be alone, to test this call against life itself. Each step taken in that direction was quietly met — through encounters, exhibitions, and the steady response of the world.

Although she later attended short courses at the Royal Academy of Arts, the University of the Arts London, and the Royal Drawing School, her practice remains rooted in something more fundamental than technique: attention.

Olivia paints from life as it is lived — through emotions, transitions, inner passages, moments of loss and renewal. Her work follows cycles of descent and emergence, much like nature itself.

She does not paint every day.

She paints when something has truly shifted — when an inner transformation has settled deeply enough to ask for form.

Colour appears as vibration.

Gesture follows sensation.

At times, an intuitive writing surfaces, as a trace of meaning finding its way into matter.

Her paintings are not illustrations, nor concepts to decipher.

They are lived spaces — layered, sensitive, alive — where poetry, depth, and presence coexist.

They speak to something deeply human and universal:

the need to descend, to feel, to let go,

and to return, slowly, to one’s own axis.

To allow the human body to become a place where life can breathe,

where love can circulate,

and where truth can be lived.

Her work has been exhibited internationally, including London (Saatchi Gallery), Paris, Brussels, Knokke, Luxembourg, Dubai, Miami (Context & Art Miami), New York, Bordeaux (etc.) and is held in private collections across Europe, the United Kingdom, the United States, Latin America, Asia, and the Middle East.

Olivia’s work does not aim to explain or to convince.

It follows life as it moves — through silence and intensity, depth and clarity.

Her paintings are not answers.

They are companions.