Summer Swim is an original artwork by Margaux, painted at Print Club during the hot spring-summer of 2025. This piece is part of an exclusive series exploring the body's energy,...
Summer Swim is an original artwork by Margaux, painted at Print Club during the hot spring-summer of 2025. This piece is part of an exclusive series exploring the body's energy, movement and shifting sensations during the heat of that summer. Printed on 300gsm Fabriano paper, it is a 1/1 original.
The swimmer — the body in the specific state of moving through water, where the usual conditions of friction and weight are transformed — is a figure that appears across Margaux Carpentier's practice. Here in high summer at Print Club, the body's movement through water is the subject: the physical sensation, the joy, the specific quality of heat followed by cool. French-born, London-based, studied Paris and Surrey. 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.’