2023
Born in Tehran, abstract painter Sofie Swann escaped the Iranian revolution at a young age and subsequently lived in the United States and France. Keeping her heritage close, Swann uses Persian tea in varying amounts as a subtle nod to her roots. The sepia tones are, at times, a faint addition, though this trademark signature creates a sense of place in every work she makes.
Swann spent time studying at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University in Boston where she explored landscapes and portraiture. Through experimentation, she developed a passion for abstract and minimalist art. While later living in Paris, she discovered key influential artists including Vincent van Gogh, Franz Kline, Mark Rothko, Cy Twombly, Louise Bourgeois and Yayoi Kusama.
As a process of self-discovery and self-expression, her paintings take the form of visual autobiographies, telling a narrative of memories, both real and imagined, and the emotion she draws from remembering them. Swann prefers not to sketch intentional designs before beginning a painting and rather lets the work evolve organically. “My thoughts and emotions. That’s where it all starts,” she said in an interview with Sorelle Gallery. “I don’t paint what I see. I paint what I feel.”
Since 2015, Swann has exhibited in solo and in groups around the United States, including at Chroma Fine Art Gallery in Katonah, New York; Silvermine Galleries and the Carriage Barn Arts Center, both in New Canaan, Connecticut; and Sorelle Gallery in Westport, Connecticut.
On 1stDibs, find a collection of Sofie Swann’s prints, paintings, mixed media and more.
"Lost at Sea" Abstract Painting
By Sofie Swann
Located in Westport, CT
This large abstract statement painting by Sofie Swann features a light blue, sandy beige, and white palette, with varying organic circular shapes and curving lines layered throughout...
Canvas, Acrylic
"Across the Universe" Abstract Painting
By Sofie Swann
Located in Westport, CT
This large abstract statement painting by Sofie Swann features a white, warm grey, and metallic silver palette with imperfect circular shapes in varying sizes arranged in a balanced ...
Gesso, Canvas, Acrylic
"Iles Inconnues" Abstract Painting
By Sofie Swann
Located in Westport, CT
This large abstract horizontal statement painting by Sofie Swann features a blue and white palette, with varying organic circular shapes layered throughout the canvas. This painting ...
Canvas, Acrylic
"Hamam" Abstract Painting
By Sofie Swann
Located in Westport, CT
This abstract painting by Sofie Swann features a cool metallic palette with imperfect circular shapes in varying sizes arranged in a balanced, patterned composition. It is made with ...
Gesso, Canvas, Acrylic
"Coup de Foudre, " Abstract Painting
By Sofie Swann
Located in Westport, CT
This large-scale original painting by Sofie Swann is made with acrylic paint on canvas. A square format, it features dark shapes, each composed of two parts, that emerge from either side of the canvas and nearly meet in the middle, leaving a somewhat jagged space white space between them. Small and mid-sized, colorful outlines of perfect circles fill the dark shapes. The piece is titled, "Coup de Foudre...
Canvas, Acrylic
"Tears of Joy" Abstract Painting
By Sofie Swann
Located in Westport, CT
This abstract painting by Sofie Swann features a warm, bright orange palette with varying sizes of circular shapes layered over a imperfect white and gold vertical lines. This painti...
Canvas, Acrylic
Paysage renversé (Abstract Painting)
By Jérémie Iordanoff
Located in London, GB
Artwork exclusive to IdeelArt. French abstract artist Jérémie Iordanoff blends the visual languages of Western Modernist Abstraction with earlier, global aesthetic traditions, such ...
Paper, Watercolor
French Contemporary Art by Marie-Pierre Autonne - Chacun Chez Soi
By Marie-Pierre Autonne
Located in Paris, IDF
Acrylic & oil on wooden panel Marie-Pierre Autonne is a French artist born in 1960 who lives & works in Angers, France. She studied at Penninghen in Paris, France. She worked for se...
Wood, Mixed Media
Sur l'étagère (Abstract Painting)
By Jérémie Iordanoff
Located in London, GB
Artwork exclusive to IdeelArt. French abstract artist Jérémie Iordanoff blends the visual languages of Western Modernist Abstraction with earlier, global aesthetic traditions, such ...
Paper, Ink
Untitled 24045 (Abstract painting)
By Martin Reyna
Located in London, GB
Untitled 24045 (Abstract painting) Oil on canvas — Unframed. Martín Reyna is an Argentinian-born abstract painter living in Paris, France. His gestural abstract paintings delight th...
Canvas, Oil
Untitled 24045 (Abstract painting)
By Martin Reyna
Located in London, GB
Untitled 24045 (Abstract painting) Oil on canvas — Unframed. Martín Reyna is an Argentinian-born abstract painter living in Paris, France. His gestural abstract paintings delight th...
Canvas, Oil
Synesthésie 112 (Abstract Painting)
By Marie de Lignerolles
Located in London, GB
Marie de Lignerolles is a French artist, designer and colourist whose work emphasizes line drawing and the use of colour. She develops an artistic approach where colour is used as a...
Paper, Watercolor
