Cécile Beaupere was born in Lyon in 1962. Her father was an architect and her mother a painter ; her maternal grandmother was also a painter.

In the course of her Art School studies in Le Havre, she attended a year-long training course in Paris at the Laboratoire d'Etude du Mouvement (LEM) under Jacques Lecoq which widened her sensory horizons. Sharing with team members experiments in representing the body in different modes of expression became a spur to her artistic development and provided the subject for her post-graduate degree paper (DNSEP, 1990).

Over a thirty-year artistic career Cécile has moved home and studio every three years on average. These disruptions in her life have been turned to account in providing many new encounters and nurturing many projects. Experimenting and exchanging techniques with other artists of many kinds - dancers, actors, mucians, writers – on a regular basis gave rise to the project « Collectif de l'Atelier du Bocage » which developed from 2009 to 2017 and produced a publication « On being more than nude »(D'être plus que Nu) and an exhibition.

Along with her own work Cécile organises live model workshops which highlight improvisation and experimentation of all kinds, with sessions open to painters, dancers, ceramic artists or writers.

Her aim is to bring creative energies together and to weave a wide artistic network around her work. From 2015 to 2017 she was Artist in Residence at the arts centre in Voiron in the Isère department, where, with the support of the Town Coucil, she put on artistic and cultural events. In 2017, invited by two artist friends Vincent Gontier and Martine Rey, she continued with them the artistic encounters of the Atelier Forge, now active for 15 years.

Since 1994 Cécile has regularly and widely exhibited in galleries and arts centres in the Rhone-Alpes region, Limoges and Strasbourg.