Biography
Sophie-Gaëlle Martin, or Sofigael M.,
is a visual artist, painter and designer,
born in 1974 in Boulogne-sur-Mer,
on the Côte d' Opal, in France.
The artist is a finalistin the major international painting competition TARTGET PRIZE 2025.
She was also awarded the Certificate of Artistic Merit of the Luxembourg Art Prize 2024 during her participation in the international selection.
His artistic work is characterized by the use of bright and saturated, energetic and dynamic colors, typical of design and graphic trends of the 70s-80s.
Through oil paintings on large and medium-sized canvases with marked contrasts, Sofigael M. speaks to us about the end(s) of the world, and paints a portrait of disillusioned but resilient characters, exiled figures from an old world victim of the catastrophes it inflicted on itself.
Sofigael M. has had a passion for drawing since she was a child. As a teenager, she took classes at the local École des Beaux-Arts, as well as lessons of photography.
After obtaining a Master's degree in Business Management and a Master's degree in Economics at the University of Lille, she moved to Paris and returned to graphic design and photography by taking up a position in visual and digital communication.
Finding, moreover, in oil painting and illustration, a happy way to express his creativity and his taste for drawing, the artist resumed studies in Bachelor of Graphic and Digital Design and decided to specialize his activity in graphics and visual art.
