Marie Hugo is a French artist who divides her time between London and the South of France. Born in the Camargue into a family of artists, she studied lithography and engraving at the École des Beaux-Arts de Montpellier and spent much of her early life in her father Jean Hugo's studio. After her studies, she lived in Asia, where her travels in the Far East and Chinese art became important influences on her work. Since the late 1990s, water and Indian ink have been central to her practice, which moves between figuration and abstraction and encompasses painting, works on paper, sculpture, installation and photography. Her major projects include a monumental work for the Corrida Goyesque in Arles in 2015 and research at Hauteville House in Guernsey on the decorative work of her great-grandfather, Victor Hugo, which led to the publication of Hauteville House, Victor Hugo décorateur. In recent years, she has returned increasingly to colour, with trees and the natural world becoming recurring subjects in her work.