CAMILLE MARQUAND’S solo exhibition “I Dwell, I Depart, I Adapt”, at The Mets Art Centre, presents a series of new works, which combine abstraction and figuration intriguingly, via a gentle pastel colour palette. Her paintings are abstracted landscapes, via which she explores the subject of biodiversity under threat from climate change and habitat loss. On these atmospheric abstract landscapes, delicately painted birds often make their appearance. Climate change is an ongoing subject in Marquand’s work, and she states the following about it: “My intention in painting is not to dwell on doom and gloom, although it is impossible to deny these feelings and in fact they are a call to action, but to invoke balance and delight through colour and form, in nature and in life.” The exhibition runs February 10-20, 2026, and is curated by Niovi Kritikou.  

Marquand started painting many years ago in England, where she was born and grew up. For the last twenty-two years her home has been in Greece but before this she lived in Edinburgh, Scotland for seven years, where she had a studio in a Scottish funded collective with other artists (WASPS). She found her artistic voice there, combining abstraction with some figuration in oils on canvas and was exhibited in galleries throughout Britain. Her paintings are in collections including that of the UK House of Commons Art Collection. Over the last 9 years she has exhibited in Athens and Crete and has been leading ‘plein air’ painting workshops in Crete.  She loves being ‘close to Nature’ as the Greeks say. This means literally being out in the countryside but also conveying that ancient sense of  ‘holding nature sacred’.

In October  of 2025,  Marquand became a member of  the Greek Chamber of  Arts, which has given her an artistic sense of  belonging to her adopted country. “Coming to Greece in 2003, I never imagined that I would still be living and painting in this country over twenty years later. But I fell on my feet and made wonderful relationships. Now I am enjoying taking part in the vibrant art scene of  Athens”, states Marquand.

Visual artist Niovi Kritikou, and curator of the exhibition “I Dwell, I Depart, I Adapt”, says the following about the artist’s work: “Camille Marquand’s painting exudes a tenderness that is almost immaterial — light as the flutter of a bird crossing the horizon. With an airy, cool palette and a feminine inventiveness that combines sensitivity with reflection, her works touch upon issues of environmental change, inclusion, and identity — not didactically, but with sincerity and inner grace. Through colour and form emerges a poetic and at the same time visual proposition on how we might exist harmoniously within a changing world. Her images seem to evoke, through beauty and fragmentary memory, an idealised reflection on nature, light, and life’s very capacity for renewal.”

Website: https://camillemarquand.com 

Insta: http://www.instagram.com/gabriellamarquand          

http://www.instagram.com/camille_marquand

email: c.marquandcm@gmail.com

• Camille Marquand’s “I Dwell, I Depart, I Adapt” runs February 10-20 at the Mets Arts Centre. Exhibition opening Feb 10, 19.00-21.00.

• The Mets Art Centre is on 6 Evgenios Voulgareos Street. Nearest metro station: Acropolis.

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