Orielle Anaïs (Santa Barbara, CA) is a multimedia artist working across painting, sculpture, and public art.
Her practice explores the body as an instrument of resonance suspended in moments that reveal the innate choreography between humanity and nature. Figures emerge not as passive forms but as active forces of rhythm, sensation, and connection.
In large-scale works such as Hope Grows Wild (15 × 50 ft mural, Santa Barbara), Orielle brings visibility to the fragile yet vital relationships that sustain life, merging beauty with environmental urgency. Her work creates spaces of both reverence and rebellion—where the presence of wildflowers, pollinators, and the human body becomes a call to recognize our inseparability from the living world and one another.
Her sculptures extend this dialogue by merging classical methods with unconventional, everyday materials - newspaper, foil, tape, plaster - subverting expectations of permanence and value. In both intimate and monumental works, Orielle invites viewers to pause, attend to the miraculous within the ordinary, and experience the interconnectedness of all living things.
In addition to her full-time studio and public art practice, Orielle collaborates with other artists. In 2024, she contributed to “The Good of the Hive”, an international mural initiative by Matt Willey dedicated to pollinator and climate awareness.
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