The Eye of the Storm is an original mono-print on 300gsm Fabriano paper featuring hand-finished elements. Painted during the hot spring-summer of 2025 at Print Club, this powerful original explores...
The Eye of the Storm is an original mono-print on 300gsm Fabriano paper featuring hand-finished elements. Painted during the hot spring-summer of 2025 at Print Club, this powerful original explores the complex and intimate relationship between a daughter and her mother.
The eye of the storm — the still centre of a cyclone, where the air is calm while destruction circles around it — is a precise metaphor for the particular quality of the mother-daughter relationship: intense, formative, often turbulent, but with a still and specific centre. Margaux Carpentier is a French-born artist based in London who studied in Paris and Surrey. Her work addresses "the head, heart, gut, and flesh" — and this piece belongs at the gut level. Our guide to investing in original artwork is worth reading. Signed. £625.
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.’