BIO

Olivia de Posson is a Belgian artist whose work explores the living forces that animate people, places, relationships and moments.

Through painting, she gives form to what is felt, sensed and emerging beneath the surface of experience, creating works that invite presence, resonance and connection.

Olivia’s work has been exhibited internationally, including at the Saatchi Gallery (London), Art Miami as well as Context during Art Basel, and in cities such as New York, Dubai, Paris, Brussels, Luxembourg, and Knokke.

An alumna of ESCP Europe (Paris), Olivia developed a self-taught artistic practice from an early age, later pursuing short formal trainings in London at the University of the Arts (UAL), the Royal Academy of Arts and the Royal Drawing School.

Her work is held in private collections across Europe, the United States, Latam, the Middle East, and Asia.

She is currently based in Belgium and works internationally.

THE ESSENCE

I am deeply attuned to the living movement of life.

The forces that animate people, places, relationships and moments. The subtle currents that shape what we feel, perceive and become.

Painting is my way of entering into relationship with those movements. Not to describe the world as it appears, but to follow what is alive within it.

What emerges on the canvas is rarely planned. Each work begins with an encounter: A place. A memory. A landscape. A conversation. A feeling. A moment of beauty, tension, silence or wonder. Something resonates. Something moves. And painting becomes the space where that movement can unfold and take form.

What appears on the canvas is not a representation of a thing, but the trace of a relationship. A dialogue between inner and outer worlds. Between what is seen and what is sensed. Between presence and form.

Over time, I have come to understand that every act of creation contains an element of transformation. When two presences meet, something new emerges: A new perception. A new possibility. A new form of life. Painting allows that emergence to become visible.

The work unfolds through colour, gesture, rhythm, texture and movement. Some paintings are vibrant and expansive. Others are quiet, contemplative or deeply textured. Some take the form of instinctive writing, symbols or luminous traces that seem to surface from beyond conscious thought.

Each body of work explores a different expression of the same inquiry: How does life reveal itself? How does it move through us? How does it become form?

The paintings do not seek to deliver fixed meanings or answers. They remain open. Living. Evolving. Inviting each viewer into their own experience. Into their own memories. Emotions. Questions. Insights. And perhaps into a deeper relationship with the living movement that animates us all.

This inquiry unfolds through three interconnected bodies of work: Embodied Script, Deep and Vibrant. Different expressions of the same ongoing dialogue with life.