The Proposal Painting

Once Upon A Time, I was born in France, in Paris. After being exposed to Plato's metaphorical sun, I got to travel the world and admire the different combinations light can offer. When I was old enough, I followed my parents' footsteps and read Classics at La Sorbonne University. After few years and a powerful dream where I was inundated by the footlights, I decided to train to become the actress I had always been at Cours Florent. And after fainting on stage under the spotlight, I woke up to my profound love story with arts where light would never cease to be my obsession. Acting and painting would go hand in hand. Memories rushed back, be they the Greek sun, the Tunisian skies or the Louvres beauties and painting was the only way to recreate and stage this dramatic relationship between light, surface and texture. I rework layers and use collage and decoupage as well as different materials such as acrylics, oils, paper, wood, metal dust and leaves and other objects collected during peripatetic quests, resulting in very diverse paintings, but all overflowing with enriched and dramatic movements. The canvas is this experimenting and "ironical" (in the Socratic meaning) tool which offers itself as the testimony of an artistic emotion and the neverending questioning of its happening. It is there to question and to be questioned, but being the sphingenine that it is, will the answer arise? I also "dress up" new or old pieces of furniture.
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