Gabriel Couzian

One Passion Gives Way to Another
After an exciting career devoted to pharmaceutical research, I was preparing to enter a new chapter of life, devoted to leisure and personal pursuits.
At the end of 2019, during a journey in Myanmar, I was searching a way to express my emotions and decided to try oil painting for the first time. Compared to the water-based painting I had practiced in my childhood, oil colours painting was much more difficult to practice. Back home I embarked on an accelerated course of training, which took me from the Municipal School of Visual Arts to the studio of a local Burgundian painters, led by a teacher trained at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Discovering my approach to painting, my teacher introduced me to several illustrated art books, including one devoted to Gerhard Richter. This discovery provided the spark that ignited this newly emerging passion.

Determined to progress even faster, I attended a number of private workshops, including courses focused on the preparation and mixing of colours and on the use of painting knives taught by another teacher from the prestigious Silpakorn University Faculty of Painting, Sculpture and Graphic Arts in Bangkok.
Building on this dual tr...

France school of art of Macon
workshop in Burgundy
Colours study and practice in Thailand

1 - April 2026 Paris Carrousel du Louvre.
2 - August 2026, solo exhibition, salle Malgouverne Cluny.