Marine Oussedik

Marine Oussedik
Marine Oussedik sculpting a wax model in her workshop in Picardy.
Born	(1967-05-20) May 20, 1967 (age 50)
Nationality	French
Known for	painting, sculpture, illustration

Marine Oussedik, born on May 20, 1967, is a painter, sculptor and an illustrator specialized in horses. In 1990, she graduated from ESAG Penninghen, the Higher College of Graphic Arts, and started exhibiting in Parisian galleries the following year. Immediately afterwards she was commissioned paintings by the Living Museum of the Horse in Chantilly to be permanently displayed in two rooms. At the same time she published a book, Les chevaux d’encre. Many art books would follow including Les chevaux du Sahara in 1998, Les chevaux du vent in 2002 and Les chevaux de rois in 2003. She would be rewarded by Prix Pégase for those last two books which testify to her passion for illustrations of all kind of horses, Arabians being her favorite. In 2014, she illustrated an art book dedicated to classical French riding with texts by Guillaume Henry.

A sculptor too, she showed her first bronze casts in 1996. Over time, her work expanded as she explored different medium, creating designs for collections of Gien earthenware called « Horses of the Wind » and « Horses of the Sun » or as a regular contributor for Belin publishing. She mainly works using ink, no models, which enables her to exptas her unique style and artistic freedom. Her works have been exhibited all over the world, especially in Switzerland, England (London), the United States, the United Arab Emirates and China. In 2010 a major retrospective exhibition of her works was held at Saint Jean castle in Nogent-le-Rotrou, now a museum. Art reviewers have often praised the elegance of her stroke, the delicacy, the accuracy of anatomy, the movement and dream like quality expressed in her works.

Marine Oussedik has dedicated her life to horses whether through art or in her daily horse-riding.

Marine Oussedik was born on May 20, 1967 in Neuilly-sur-Seine. Her mother was from Picardy and her father was a Kabyle. She discovered horses when she was five years old, riding poneys in Paris, at the Luxembourg garden where she fiercely refused to dismount. From then on she began drawing horses and would never stop depicting them. When a child she used to run to the balcony of the family flat in Paris whenever she heard the clattering of hooves as the Republican Guard were riding by. However she really started equestrianism when she was ten, following her elder sister who took her to Neuilly’s riding-school. Apart from her sister, nobody in her family was especially interested in horses nor rode them.