2-layer screen-print on GF Smith 300gsm off-white paper. "The egg was encountered on a stormy autumn evening, when I sat on the brick wall bordering an old cemetery only to...
2-layer screen-print on GF Smith 300gsm off-white paper. "The egg was encountered on a stormy autumn evening, when I sat on the brick wall bordering an old cemetery only to discover a row of perfectly aligned eggs someone had placed on top of the bricks. This mystery brought the egg to my work, perhaps a symbol of treasure and enigma but also something fragile we must care for. The egg here is surrounded by the things that I love." — Margaux Carpentier
The image begins in an actual encounter — a found mystery on a cemetery wall — and expands into a symbol. Margaux Carpentier works between the observed and the imagined, the earthly detail becoming the starting point for something larger. She is a French-born artist based in London who studied in Paris and Surrey. Signed. £120.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Margaux Carpentier
Margaux Carpentier is a French-born artist based in Stoke Newington, London who studied in Paris and Surrey. She works across screen printing, painting, drawing, spray paint, ceramics and large-scale murals — her practice built around storytelling through symbolic imagery, created entirely by hand using analogue methods. Her work addresses the head, heart, gut and flesh: desire, connection and the vibrant oddity of existence rendered in bold, unapologetic figures and folk-inflected symbols. She is part of Animaux Circus studio and the Puck collective, and is represented by Art Friend. She was campaign artist for Affordable Art Fair Battersea Spring 2025 and has painted murals at London Zoo and Homerton Hospital. In her own words: ‘Creation acts as a window, an unlimited access to colour and pleasure.’
