Elisabeth de GOURCUFF began educating herself while a teenager in Paris. 

 

Convinced of the need to seek creative inspiration in the study of ancient art and civilizations, she attended the Ecole du Louvre where she refined her understanding of major classical masterpieces.

 

She then joined the Albers’s studio in Paris and prepared herself for the best art schools. She entered the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels where she received a classical training in such techniques as plaster and clay sculpting, granite carving and bronze casting.

 

She returned to France to spend two years in the workshop of Montmartre sculptor Marcel Mahu.

 

During this period, she also taught drawing at the Association for the Development of Plastic Arts.

  

In 1992 she began working in private studios in Paris and the Berry region. In 1995, she enrolled in classes to study printmaking in the workshops on the Place des Vosges and stone carving at the Paris School of Fine Arts – Beaux-Arts.

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In 1998 she settled in the Berry where she has since concentrated on her wildlife bronzes, as well as statues and busts in bronze and plaster. In addition, she continues to meet the demands of an ever increasing number of commissions. 

 

Since 2010 she works in Angers, Paris, Santiago (Chile) and Milan (Italy)