Annick Augier

In what feels like another life, I graduated in Marketing and Business and then worked in a company in Paris for ten years.

My life changed when I moved to Italy in 1991. I fell in love with Trompe l’oeil painting and decided to change my profession. Following six months’ training with the internationally renowned artist Yannick Guégan, I returned to Rome and built a career as a decorative painter specializing in Trompe l’oeil.

A few years passed and I found myself facing another crossroads when I battled cancer successfully twice in short order. Eager to heal completely, I enthusiastically delved into numerous holistic therapies, which I began to study and then practice. I had set off on a journey of personal and spiritual evolution, which ultimately proved to be a journey of self- healing.

One day I realised that learning how to paint was merely the first step. I found a way to merge my two great passions to create a wholly new therapeutic method: Healing through painting, The way of the Mandala and Soul portraits.

According to collectors from all over Europe, my work goes beyond the world of appearances to reveal the most intimate part of the Self, offering visions of the soul and its purpose. My paintings speak of ...