Marie Michaud

After devoting much of my life to jewellery design and building a business working with some of France’s most prestigious jewellery houses, I gradually felt drawn towards a freer, more personal form of expression.
Sculpture emerged as a natural progression.
Through clay, patinas and stone, I bring to life a distinctive world inhabited by figures, animals and symbolic guardians. My work explores themes that have long been part of my life: transformation, memory, transmission, fragility and resilience.
Each sculpture tells an open-ended story, inviting viewers to bring their own sensibility and imagination to the encounter.
Based in Provence, I continue to develop Le Peuple des Pierres — The Stone People — an imaginary theatre where stones become a language and each being holds a mystery of its own.

Law school,
Gemmology,
Transactionnal Analysis coaching