Sabine Le Doze biography

Sabine Le Doze grew up in Casablanca, Morocco. She started painting with her mother, an art teacher, and here learned the techniques of drawing, watercolour and oil.  Art became for her a real passion.

She studied at the “Acadamie Charpentier” (publicity), and taking evening classes at “Les Ateliers de la Ville de Paris” in Montmartre and Montparnasse, prepared to enter the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts de Paris where she studied for three years with  A Segui and V. Bioulès as teachers.

On returning to Casablanca she worked as an art teacher for seven years. She organised exhibitions for herself and her students, including an exhibition in her studio with the group “Sembilan”, (1993) in the Centre Culturel d’Anfa (1994), in Galerie 13 (1996) and Sidi Béliot (1997).

 Her favourite subjects are landscapes and people who she meets in her frequent travels especially in the Atlas Mountains. Her subjects are often of traditional subjects such as the Souks, the camel drivers and life in the villages. “I like choosing difficult subjects and new technical difficulties. For instance painting sunlight on clothes in watercolour.”

 Back in France she moved around a lot for a few years, as her pictures bear testimony.  Her marines fluctuate from Brittany to the Mediterranean coast.  Now she lives near Marseille in the village of Velaux.

 She spreads her oil paint with a knife often touching up with the paintbrush. Her watercolours are more classical based on accurate drawing of architecture and perspective. Watercolours cannot be “touched up”. Sabine brings back rough sketches from her travels.  Better than photos they transmit the emotions felt under a yurt in Mongolia or near a chapel in Brittany.  She teaches in Velaux, and has exhibitions at the gallery, “Les Amis des Arts” on the Cours Mirabeau in Aix en Provence. Her work is varied as she refuses to confine herself to a single manner. It includes abstract and realist, oil and water colour, small pictures and big pictures. The best is to see for yourself on her website or in the gallery.  Enjoy your visit!