French-American Contemporary Mixed-Media Artist

From performing to revealing.

I am a French-American artist, born in Issoudun, France, and now creating from my studio in Chatham, Virginia.

My creative life began on stage. As an actress in Paris, I learned to step into characters, to explore emotion, to tell stories. Later, I wrote and created shows for children. Words, imagination, and movement were my way of expressing myself.

Today, I paint.

And painting is something very different.

I don't start with an image in mind or a message I want to share. I start with what I feel, right now. An emotion, a memory, a word, a sensation. Sometimes something I cannot name yet. I begin, and I follow my intuition. The painting shows me where it wants to go.

Every piece begins with paper: pages from old journals, magazines, movie posters, French books. I keep a place at home for everything I can reuse. Then come the layers of paint, much of it returned house paint, and oil pastel. I love color. I love bold. I love large surfaces where I can express myself unapologetically.

Working this way is a choice. I want to live with less, consume less, and still create with abundance. I don't need something new to make something meaningful. I would rather look at what already exists and discover what else it can become.

Some layers stay visible. Others disappear beneath the surface. And sometimes, what comes through surprises me.

For many years, I performed. I adapted. I played roles.

Painting is the one place where I don't have to.

I can simply be.

I paint first for myself, to listen to what is inside and to discover what I could not say with words.

At its heart, my work is about self-love, about coming back to ourselves. I truly believe peace in the world begins with the peace we find within. Each painting is my way of coming home to myself, and an invitation for you to do the same.

Once a painting leaves my studio, it has its own life. You may connect with a color, a word, a texture, or simply the feeling of standing in front of it. It doesn't have to mean the same thing for you as it does for me.

Right now, I am creating a new body of larger mixed-media works. This is a new chapter for me. I am giving myself the space to go deeper, to experiment with scale and materials, and to create without trying to fit into anyone else's idea of what my art should be.

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

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