As we learn to speak, words naturally get tied to generic pictures. If I say the word “forest”, your brain produces a generic image of a forest.

When I moved to Costa Rica in 1998, my stock of images was entirely based off twenty-five years of living in France. They did not fit my new environment. It was the moment I started to look instead of just seeing.

It’s when what you see collides with the generic picture you have that it grabs your attention and provokes a feeling. You take a picture of a sunset because it is more beautiful than the generic image you have of a sunset. The “collision” is what fuels my work.

My eyes are now open to things I took for granted: everyday social interactions, routines, urban environments, behaviours. Daily life moves me and sparks the urge to capture moments of the ordinary. I find beauty in a building under construction, people caught in traffic, workers going about their day.

I want to share the deep tenderness I have for the everyday, that shared realm of time and space in which our lives unfold.

After a prior life as a translator, it was in 2020, during the first French lockdown, that I decided to commit full time to painting. 

In 2023, I exhibited for the first time at the 30th Édition of the Salon des Arts in the city of Chambourcy, France. 

During this event, I was approached by the Association des Peintres de Chatou, association that I am still a member of today. 

After relocating to Costa Rica in 2025, I decided to pursue my painting practice more actively through exhibition projects, while continuing to exhibit and maintain close connections with the French art community.