Armelle de Sainte Marie

Born in 1968 in Versailles, Armelle de Sainte Marie has lived and worked in Marseille since the late 1990s.

In her paintings and drawings, she develops a proliferating universe with ambiguous geographies, stretched between quasi-figuration and abstraction, in which forms—borrowed from the mineral, plant, and animal kingdoms—seem to generate their own vital and phantasmagorical adventures.
The motif of thorns and brambles has been a leitmotif for several years: it has crept into the artist's work partly because of the garden she walks through and observes every day on her way to her studio, but also because she is fascinated by the symbolism of thorns, particularly in medieval and Christian iconography and in fairy tales. In these, the bramble bush bristling with thorns has a combative and wild character, often representing the last obstacle to overcome in order to attain love, galvanizing strength and resilience. 
In nature, the bramble is autonomous and prickly; wearing it as jewelry is a statement.

Ronce, designed in 2024, is the artist's first collaboration with the MiniMasterpiece gallery.
Armelle de Sainte Marie's work is part of the Frac Auvergne collection, the Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs collection, and various art libraries in France. It has been exhibited in Denmark, Germany, Belgium, and the United States. Her works are part of private collections in Europe and internationally.
Until recently, she was represented by the Jean Fournier gallery in Paris and the Béa-Ba gallery in Marseille.