Virginie Baude

‍ Artist of the North

In reverence of the Wild North

its land,

its silence,

its living Spirit.

“A wolf that meets your gaze.
A raven that carries mystery.
A bear that breathes quiet strength.

I paint the Northern Wild — not as isolated subjects, but as part of a larger world shaped by weather, distance, and survival.

My work comes from years spent living close to wilderness: studying wildlife, traveling remote landscapes, flying over mountain terrain, and experiencing the North from within rather than from a distance.

What begins in observation often leads to invention. Some paintings are born directly from the North itself - its weather, wildlife, silence, and light. Others grow from imagination, memory, symbolism, and design.

The foundation is traditional craft, but the language shifts with the painting: atmospheric when I want silence, symbolic when I want mystery, contemporary when I want impact, and invented when imagination wants to run.

The subject may change, but the pursuit remains the same: to create work that feels alive.

I am not interested in reproducing photographs alone. I want the work to feel inhabited — as though the animal, the atmosphere, and the land belong to the same living moment.

Over the last decade, my work has evolved toward a deeper pursuit of structure, atmosphere, restraint, and permanence. Today, my focus is devoted entirely to the North:
the wildlife,
the landscapes,
the sled dogs,
the bush planes,
and the untamed spirit that connects them all.”