Village de reve. Print

Marie (Bouvet) Frederick was born in Deauville, Normandy. After a brief period studying at L’Ecole des Beaux Arts in Rouen and Paris, she travelled extensively throughout Europe and north Africa where she began to develop her own expressive style. Marie came to the West Indies in 1984 falling in love with the raw beauty of Dominica, a ‘garden of Eden’. She married Clem, a man of the soil who is also an artist, working with wood and stone. Together with their son Isaiah, they have made their home and studio near the village of Borne, creating an extraordinary retreat carved out of an untouched forest. Marie specializes in pen and ink, watercolour, acrylic and oil pastels. She finds inspiration in the rhythms of Dominca’s seductive environments -the old shingle homes, rumshops, full moon in the bush and the intensity of a natural world that is larger than life.