the artist
Parisian artist Alix Soubiran created Princes & Crows in January 2008. Alix Soubiran is a fine artist, a traveler, a daydreamer and a storyteller. Alix credits her grandfather, a celebrated French author and recipient of the Theophraste Renaudot literary prize in 1943 for her passion for storytelling and fascination with stunning wall decor.
Alix describes her grandfather’s beautiful old house in the 16th arrondissement in Paris as the single most incredible place she ever set foot in. “It was a labyrinth of books from floor to ceiling where rooms of paper walls came to life. My sister and I would get lost in the odd architecture, where behind each tower, whose organization was known only to him, the wallpaper would reveal itself: A banana tree, a native Indian peaking out. It was my first encounter with Zuber’s scenic wallpaper “Brazil”. It was wonderful”
Alix graduated in Political Science and Fine Art in France. She created beautiful murals and painted décors in high-end residences around the world over the last six years; A Roman church in Southern France, villas in St Tropez, Paris, London, Mustique Island, Miami and Los Angeles.
As a portrait artist, she has shown in galleries in NYC, Los Angeles and London at the Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition in 2004 curetted by David Hockney.