About

Olivia Barratier is a French, British and American painter, she built a career creating images for the film world before engaging full time on her path as a painter.

Her creative journey started the day she set off from Paris, hitchicking to Dublin where she enrolled in Art School and earned a bachelor’s in Art & Design in Visual Communications.

She pursued her career creating film posters for giants such as John Boorman, and for companies such as Warner Bros, Sony and Universal productions. Working on more the fifty major film productions, as film editor, poster designer and creative director.

Running parallel to her professional projects, Olivia is busy with the expression of her creative world which finds it's expression in painting, drawing or filling her diaries, witnesses of her adventures, as she moved from Paris, Dublin, New York, Montréal and Los Angeles.

Olivia pursues drawing and painting studies at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California, and creates a short film entitled ‘It All Started with a Lie’, retracing the arch of her journey through the form of a visual poem. The film won a number of awards, and marks the beginning of her desire to create images which tell her own story.

This is the journey she is now on, working steadily everyday at her easel, tracing the contours of the dream, the architecture of the vision, finding her way within the magical mystery of oil paint, to allow the mystery to unfold, the images within to emerge and to set her vision on embracing the fleeting moment, and capturing it.