My work focuses primarily on capturing fleeting moments of beauty in everyday life, giving them permanence through the medium of paint: a landscape or building observed when no-one else is around, or the demeanour of a person absorbed in mundane activity.
I am influenced by the Impressionist and Fauvist approaches to colour, and have a fascination for the interaction of darkness and light, be it that of the rising sun or of a modest light bulb in an entryway.
Starting from cropped images, oil pastel studies and abundant colour research, I favour acrylic paint, using a wide range of brush marks and textures. I occasionally incorporate other media such as collage or charcoal.
I am a self-taught artist and left my native South Western France in 2000 for London, where I have lived ever since.
Artsdepot Winter Showcase: curated by Artsdepot, London, November 2023 to February 2024.
FLUID: group show with Victoria Caution, Jacqui Cooke and Miranda Leung, Espacio Gallery, London, November-December 2023.
GAIA: group show curated by the Camden Image Gallery, London, September 2023.
Online Summer Exhibition: curated by Highgate Contemporary Art, London, August-September 2023.
What is Art (Fifth Edition): curated by Boomer Gallery, London, February 2023.
Winter Exhibition: group show with Kim Scouller, Daniel Shadbolt, Miranda Leung, Fariyal Wallez, Laura Smith and Sarah Jane Moon. The Wood Norton, Cotswolds, November 2022 to February 2023.
The Figure, Reframed: showcase for the Advanced Year Of The Figure and Portrait at the City Lit, London, May 2022.
Finding the Light: in collaboration with Luke Mitchell. Camden Image Gallery, London, June 2021.
The Body Exquisite, London Drawing, 2022
Year of the Figure and Portrait, Advanced, City Lit, 2021-22
Life Drawing Summer School, London Drawing, 2021
Painting 2 and 3, City Lit, 2020-21
Oil pastels, City Lit, 2021
Longlisted, Visual Artists Association Professional Artists Prize 2023
MA Philosophy, Toulouse University, France, 2000