French-American Contemporary Mixed-Media Artist

From performing to revealing.

I am a French-American artist based in Chatham, Virginia.

My creative journey began with acting. I learned to step into different characters, explore emotion, and tell stories. Later, I wrote and created shows for children, continuing to express myself through words, imagination, and movement.

Today, I paint.

And painting has become a very different kind of expression.

I don't begin with a fixed image or a message I already know I want to communicate. I begin with what I feel in the present moment. Sometimes it is an emotion, a memory, a word, a sensation or simply something I cannot yet name.

I start creating and allow the painting to evolve.

My paintings are built through layers of paint, paper, cardboard, texture, found elements, and words.

I work exclusively with recycled and reimagined materials. This is an intentional choice. In a world where we constantly buy, replace, and discard, I am interested in looking at what already exists and finding another possibility within it.

The layers are an important part of my work.

They can speak to the emotions, memories, experiences, and expectations we accumulate throughout our lives. They can also represent the roles we play, the facades we create, and the different versions of ourselves we show to the world.

Some layers remain visible. Others disappear beneath the surface.

And sometimes, what emerges surprises me.

Words are also part of my visual language. I incorporate words and ideas that have impacted me throughout my life—about love, presence, truth, expectations, connection, and being ourselves.

I don't use them to tell the viewer what to feel.

I use them because they are part of my reality.

After years of performing, adapting, and playing different roles, painting became a place where I no longer needed to perform.

I can simply create.

I paint first for myself to express what is there and to discover something I may not have been able to put into words.

But once a painting leaves my studio, it belongs to another experience.

Someone may recognize something in it that I never intended. Someone may connect with a color, a word, a texture, or simply the feeling of standing in front of it.

There doesn't have to be one meaning.

The painting is where we meet.

I am now creating from my studio in Chatham, Virginia, developing a new body of larger mixed-media works. This is an important new chapter in my artistic life one where I am giving myself the space to go deeper into my own visual language, experiment with scale and materials, and create without trying to fit into someone else's idea of what my art should be.

I am building slowly, intentionally, and one painting at a time.

This is my work.
This is my way of seeing.
And this is what I am creating now.