Maribe Lambert-Markouizos is a French artist working and living full time on Hydra Island Greece. Her Hydra paintings depend upon her emotions, which are inspired by her surroundings and events as they unfold around her.
Biography
Maribe Lambert Markouizos was born in Paris in 1947, but grew up in Toulouse (France).
From 1964/65 to 1969 she studied at the Ècole Nationale des Beaux-arts et des Arts Appliqués à l’industrie in Bourges, an Art School whose director was Henry Malvaux, a well known painter, engraver, sculptor and cineast. Maribe was a student of Legrand for decoration, of Marcel Gili (himself a student of Maillol) for sculpture, of Labore for academic drawing and of Noel Feuerstein for painting.
Maribe took place in numerous common exhibitions at the Maison de la Culture in Bourges.
In 1968 she passed the CAFAS (Certificate of aptitude for artistic training), then specialized in decoration.
She arrived in Athens in 1970 where she started a painting workshop for children. A year later she received first price at the XEN exhibition for painting in Kifissia. That same year, 1971, she discovered the island of Hydra and was immediately spellbound by it! She shared her life between Athens in winter and Hydra in summer, before moving entirely to the island in 1978.
Four years later she met her husband to be, an Athenian who loved Hydra as much as she.
In 1981 Maribe married into the Markouizou family Hydra has been her home ever since.
Even though she continued to paint, the nature of her work changed becoming very personal. So much so that Maribe was reluctant to exhibit. However, in 2015, Maribe submitted a number of paintings for the ‘Paintings in the Garden’ exhibition at Mandraki, Hydra, which was well received and applauded.
2018 was a busy year for Maribe as she took part in two group exhibitions on Hydra. The first was the Miaoulia 2018 exhibition in June, followed by the Summer exhibition in August. Her work for both exhibitions was again well received.
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Collectors
Exhibitions
1972 XEN (Kifisia, Greece)
2015 Melina Mercouri Hall
2015 Painting In The Garden in Mandraki/Hydra
2016/17/18 Group Exhibitions Melina Mercouri Hall
2018 - 2 other successful exhibitions
Contact
Maribe works from her studio at home in Mandraki. Her work is available to see and purchase by appointment. In the first instance, please use the email form to make an appointment.