Zoë Navarre is a London-born artist working from South London and in her studio in the foothills of the Eastern French Pyrenees, in the landscapes that inspired the key modern abstract painters and colour movements of the twentieth century.
Zoë studied Fine Arts after moving to Australia in 2002, living and working on the Northern coast of New South Wales. She studied under the guidance of her mentor, Terri Butterworth, the award-winning Australian abstract artist.
Her influences include the bold colour works of Paul Klee, Otto Freundlich, and Kandinsky, as well as the precision and craftsmanship of Albrecht Dürer.
Her first solo exhibition was in 2015 as part of the opening celebrations for Sama Studio in Dorrigo, Northern NSW.
In 2016 Zoë returned to London where she furthered her studies at Heatherley’s School of Art and at The Slade. She exhibited as part of the Interconnected Collective from 2016 to 2018 as her body of work progressed and evolved into larger multi-media works and canvases. Her work continued with small and intricate gouache studies, developing later into larger scale oils and acrylic on canvas. She has aspirations to translate her work into large-scale mural installations.
Predominantly working in gouache and oils, Zoë’s brightly-coloured abstract paintings are based on the shapes of the branches of trees, leaf litter, and the large-scale movements of the land itself. Her work seeks to explore the more ephemeral subjects of the sense of connection felt through the natural world, and ultimately the oneness that underpins all existence.