❈ ABOUT VIE ❈

Flavie Gratton, known as Vie, is a visual artist originally from Québec and currently based in Manitoba. After nearly a decade working as a 3D artist in the video game industry, she established her independent art practice in 2023, turning toward traditional media as a way to explore storytelling through a more personal and tactile approach.

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Working primarily in watercolor and oil painting, Vie creates symbolic, narrative-driven artworks inspired by dark fantasy, ethereal imagery, and the fictional worlds that have shaped her imagination since childhood. Her work brings together observation and fantasy through expressive feminine figures, fluid forms, and layered textures, often using shades of pink to explore the tension between beauty and darkness.

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For Vie, art offers a visual language through which emotions, experiences, and ideas can take on new dimensions. Through color and symbolism, she transforms these intangible elements into images that can be experienced and interpreted in deeply personal ways. She is drawn to the power of fictional worlds to help us understand ourselves, process complex feelings, and imagine possibilities beyond our everyday lives. Themes of femininity, resilience, vulnerability, and transformation recur throughout her work, creating images that feel both intimate and otherworldly.

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Through her practice, Vie seeks to create spaces where imagination and personal meaning can coexist, inviting viewers to find their own stories and interpretations within her work.