After studying Graphic Arts and Art History at the Beaux-arts, I worked as a DA in advertising for several years. The birth of my children gave me a new rhythm. I then developed a range of decorative pieces, before discovering porcelain just over 7 years ago. As a self-taught artist, I learnt to work with this material, which I never tire of, through successes and failures... I set up a space in my home, bought my first kiln and started to work with casting porcelain, then paste, in slabs....
Immersed in a search for balance between realism and imperfection, the use of porcelain as my preferred material is a deliberate choice to let the material decide for itself in part.
In fact, this capricious clay reacts to the firing temperature, inducing reduction, deformation and changes to the initial colour.
All these changes are part of a kind of blossoming, like a plant that grows and evolves.
In my work, I try to capture the delicate invasion of vegetation, showing the moment when exuberant flowers sprout from a leaf and cover everything.
In the same way, I cover shapes with hundreds of petals and porcelain flowers, which sometimes split and fall off. Like imperfect nature, imperfection and tearing are voluntary and assumed - even hoped for.
It's all about finding a lasting representation of vital balance, like a fragile breath...
Just as plants grow and blossom in a virgin act, albeit one that is always repeated, my pieces take shape according to the same rhythm, a regular, delicate gesture giving birth to a singular form, all variations of which are odes to the invasion of vegetation, my main source of inspiration.
