« De sable et de feuilles »
« Of Sand and Leaves »
From childhood, growing up in the Vallerystal crystal factory, I was surrounded by light and matter, elements that awakened in me a deep sensitivity to the world. After graduating from ESAG Penninghen in 1984, I began my career as an interior architect, shaping physical spaces before turning to what cannot be touched: emotion.
In 2000, I left France for Qatar. There, within the vastness of the desert, my true pictorial language emerged. My palette was reduced to the essentials, dust and light, shadows and silence.
Fifteen years later, Malaysia opened a new chapter. In Terengganu, the jungle and the sea replaced sand and stone. Solitude became my companion, and the tropical landscape slowly infused my painting. Colors began to bloom; vegetation replaced minerals, and poems began to accompany my works, intimate fragments of life, whispers of forest and rain.
In 2021, I moved to Singapore. The pulse of the city challenged me to find balance, to breathe within the noise, to rediscover nature through structure and rhythm. Over time, I absorbed the contrasts of this garden city: the colorful shophouses, the black-and-white homes, the lush parks. These became the threads of a new creative cycle.
Today, my paintings, gouaches, and linocuts explore the dialogue between nature and architecture, between memory and renewal.
Each place I inhabit leaves a trace; each hue carries an emotion. From desert to tropics, from jungle to city, I continue my quiet search for the world’s silent beauty.
