SURREAL ANIMAL PAINTER
Corine PERIER
Corine Perier is a French contemporary figurative artist born in Paris in 1964. She earned a Master's degree in Art History from the Sorbonne University and studied at the Beaux-Arts de Paris. She is known for her surreal animal paintings.
Corine's works explore the relationship between the animal world and its environment. The artist plays with the touching emotional quality of animal beauty in a world of boundaries between human and nature. Executed in oil in a harmonious color palette, her work is a surreal imagining of what limitless wonders and combinations nature can produce.
Over the years, she has created an animal universe to which she adds a touch of strangeness that is her artistic signature which has allowed her to exhibit in Europe as well as the United States.
She lives and works at Montpellier, France since 2020.
FOR THE LOVE OF ART
Her history
Corine grew up in a family of collectors, surrounded by works of art that fueled her passion for creation. Encouraged from a young age, she quickly developed a strong taste for drawing and painting while giving free rein to her curiosity about the animal world.
After studying Art History and Fine Arts in Paris, she began her studies in painting restoration and in 1990 was asked to restore part of the collection of the Musée des Arts Forains in Paris.
Then, she opened her own workshop in Paris in the Marais and worked with antique dealers for 15 years, specializing in restoration and creation of decorative painted canvases from the 18th century, rich in floral and animal motifs.
Rich in experience, Corine decided in 2009 to devote herself entirely to her own painting by creating surreal works blending classical and contemporary art.
In 2011 she had her first solo exhibition at the Galerie Montmartre/Espace Dali in Paris.
Her deep connection with wildlife and her passion for art allow her to forge kind relationships with art dealers and collectors from all over the world, whom she meets in France and during her worldwide travels. Since then, she has regularly showed her works throughout Europe and United States.
A COMMITTED ARTIST
Statement
Deeply intrigued by hybridity, both as a natural phenomenon and as a metaphor, I examine the balance and relationship of animals with their environment. In my paintings, I depict the ceaseless cycles of change by adding a touch of strangeness to my compositions. The natural world is a symbol of perpetual transformation, and I explore this transformation by representing animals as creatures that are both fascinating and untouchable. I would describe my practice as traditional wildlife art with a touch of surrealism.
However, my artistic work is not solely based on aesthetics. By creating a dialogue between the animal world and the natural or urban environment, I also illustrate a major problem of the 21st century: the extinction of species in a world of constant change.
My animal art is as much a tribute to beauty as it is an invitation to see the world from a new perspective and to raise awareness about environmental protection.
By giving birth to imaginary creatures, I recreate my own world, hoping to inspire respect and admiration for the intriguing and universal beauty of our living world.
INTERNATIONAL ARTIST
Exhibitions
Corine Perier has exhibited in Europe, with solo exhibitions including "Cabinets de Curiosités" with Galerie Annotiau, Rodez, France (2024), "L'Ile Mystérieuse"with Afnakafna Gallery , Rome, Italy (2021), and "Horizons Lointains" with Galerie Montmartre/Espace Dali, Paris, France (2011).
She showed her work in group exhibitions, in the United States including Roq La Rue Gallery, Modern Eden Gallery, Copro Gallery, and in Europe with Dorothy Circus Gallery (Italy), Coates & Scarry (UK), Feinkunst Kruger (Germany), and Fousion Gallery (Spain).
In 2024 and 2025, Corine showed her work with Alaux Gallery, Valencia, Spain.