The artist

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Biography

Julie was born in south of France in Montpellier.
She keeps from her childhood in Garrigue, the love of nature, space and colors.

After several companies experiences, she chose to live in Forêt in Bourgogne with her family to be closer to nature and lives fully her values.
She also started to teach yoga that she practises for more than 10 years. Indeed, the body connexion nurtures her and is so present in her art process.

All this inspires her daily. Her artistic approach shows the wish to
- take care of the livings
- be connected to nature
- to be connected to season's pace, to her own cycles, to her body
- use local ressources
- decrease her environmental impact

Today, she is an engaged naturalist artist.

Artistic intentionVisual artist inspired by nature

Julie Laforêt is a visual artist inspired by the nature. She is living in the french forest of the Morvan. Be connected with nature and its cycles are the base of her artistic process. Artworks and installations are inspired by the ecological art with the will to use natural materials harvest where she lives.
Time outside, in the forest are like moments out of time where the artist leaves the human world to connect other worlds. She is living the present moment and every material can become a wonderful meet and can inspire her. So the barrier with worlds is becoming so dead smooth and subtle. Thus she is out of human condition to become forest, to be inside the earth and receive life so fully.
Each materials is being transformed to become art with differents technics. Vegetals are used in dyeing and printemps and can be incorporated in sculptures. Barks can make paper or be an essential element of sculptures. Mineral are using to make natural paint or as base of sculptures.
To put in a nutshell, each artwork, biodegradable and bio-sourced, is the story of a true confluence with nature and a way of living on earth with few impact. Thus, the spectator can be immersed in this natural atmosphere and to re connected to nature.

Installation 2025

Discover the natural fresco of 15 meters long called "sweet forest" created for the Chapel in Autun. This important artwork was created to promote harwoods in Morvan and their importance for the well being in the future of the forests.

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Last exhibitions

Exhibition essentiality

Autun / Bourgogne / June 2025

Exhibition "Essentiality" in Cluny with the photograph Olivier Picque.

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Exhibition essentiality

Cluny / Bourgogne / May 2025

Exhibition "Essentiality" in Cluny with the photograph Olivier Picque.

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Installation / Honoring Water

Summer 2024 / Burgundy

Honoring water installation

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Artistic experiences

  • Publications

    21st of June 2024Book“Tataki zomé, technique d’impression végétale inspirée du Japon ” Editions Rustica

  • Exhibitions

    2024Store of FRAC Bourgogne - December Personal exhibition "water" in Burgundy - Summer Sun way / Burgundy - SummerSalon d’automne / Paris - January
    2023Salon National des Beaux Arts / Naturalist - Paris Sun way in Burgundy - Summer
    2022Salon National des Beaux Arts / Naturalist - Paris

  • Residency

    2025 - Morvan's forestFresco of 15 meters called "sweet forest"Paper exploration
    2024 - Morvan's forestSculptures seriePaper explorations
    2023 - Morvan's forestWork with different materials : minerals, barks, vegetal to get natural colorsFermented explorations
    2021 / 2022 - Morvan's forestVegetal printing tataki zomé and vegetal dyeing

  • Workshops

    Art & nature - 2024Day with children and disabled adults 
    Workshop on vegetal dyeing and printemps - depuis 2022 4 to 6 sessions per year

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