"Deva" Painting

I grew up between the beaches and landscapes of Gauguin, the Pacific light, the vivid colours, the unhurried rhythm of Polynesia. Today I live in Marseille, where I find echoes of that same warmth in the southern sun and the nearby sea.
I paint women who are almost hidden. Languid figures, backs turned, faces erased, fabrics caught mid-movement in shimmering colours. My canvases never tell the whole story, they leave space for the viewer to imagine what comes next. Often the women are cropped by the frame, or they reach toward each other across paintings, quietly answering one another.
Each work is built in layers (acrylic, oil, gold leaf, natural pigments) on canvas, wood, or handmade papers brought back from Indonesia, where I spend time each year. I choose my materials the way others choose words: for what they carry.
My series include Histoires d'eaux (water, memory, origins), Vague à l'âme (inner currents, shaped by years of surfing), and Passages and Entre Deux (thresholds, suspended moments). All of them circle the same question: what can be felt but not said.
I hold a professional certification in art therapy and have led humanitarian art projects in Southeast Asia and Colombia. I believe painting heals, in the studio, and in the world.
Available for commissions, art leasing and institutional collaborations. Experienced in working at large scale and in series. Based in Marseille, France / shipping worldwide.