L'Etrangère (The Foreigner) Print

I’ve lived fairly isolated in the French countryside for several years now, and so my vision of things and the way I create at this stage comes from an unconscious mind and living a quiet life here, as a foreigner and artist. I’ve traveled, studied, and created for a great part of my life and of course my work today takes influence from all of these experiences as well as a childhood that was culturally rich, due to my mother's influence, and my curiosity and intrigue with performance art, literature, music and visual arts. The main focus of my work is to look for, identify and create beauty, but I find my vision always tends to lean towards the darker or unusual. I want to tell a story in each piece, which is often very personal. I’ve always been an avid drawer and I like details in things. I love facial expression: exaggerated, emotional but surreal, organic, extraterrestrial. There is also much fantasy embedded in my work, and it’s through fantasy and my emotions that I interpret beauty. I paint in oil, because I feel the medium lends me the most freedom for the effects I visualize. I hope my audience will see my work, take a moment, and pause for reflection; look into the details, feel the emotions, the struggle, the passion, the beauty, the story. My goal in creating is to leave a trace of my humanity, my story, the expressions of my most interior self. As Georges Braque said, “L'art est une blessure qui devient lumière” - Art is a wound that turns to light -