How My French Background Shapes My Work

I was born in France, where art, emotion, and conversation are often inseparable. My work is shaped not only by French aesthetics but by a way of seeing, one that values tension, nuance, and the space between words. As a French artist, I carry that with me in every painting.

The Influence of Culture, Not Just Geography

Growing up surrounded by European art, literature, and architecture gave me a deep respect for form but it also taught me to question it. Contemporary art in France often engages with emotion and history in the same breath. That duality shaped my own approach to painting, where memory and distortion live together on the same surface.

Emotional Depth Over Clarity

French culture often embraces ambiguity, the unspoken, the complicated, the in-between. That comes through in my process. I don’t strive for precision. I strive for presence. In my work, which falls within emotional art and expressionist art, clarity isn’t the goal. Intensity is.

Why I Paint What I Feel, Not What I Know

Although I studied psychology, I don’t approach my work as an academic. I approach it as a person. My process is more intuitive than intellectual. That’s where my background merges into what I now recognize as psychological art, not analysis, but reflection.

My work also involves texture, layering, and contradiction. That’s why I use mixed media art. Materials like newspaper and oil help me translate emotional weight into something you can see and almost touch.

My French background doesn’t define my work, but it does inform how I move through the canvas, always seeking feeling, asking questions, and leaving space for contradiction.