About

     

 

                                                                     

Artist Statement:

      In my abstract paintings, I like to evoke feelings of freedom, liveliness and transformation.

 Through hyper color contrast and dynamic composition, I try to create movement and instability on my canvas. I thrive on spontaneity, and value adaptability and flexibility. I have developed two styles of painting: impressionistic and non-representational abstract. I almost never use a paint brush and work almost solely with painting knives and other tools like squeegees. Armed with my fancy squeegee and various painting knives, I like to create colorful imaginary forests and landscapes in oil, acrylic or watercolor.

      I was born and raised in France but my father was from Nicaragua, a country I have visited numerous times. I presently live in Washington, DC.

      2022 has been a very special year for me. I decided to take a semester away from teaching and dedicate my entire time to painting. I believe that since the beginning of 2022, because of the ability to paint every single day, I have made tremendous progress in my painting skills.

 

Media:

  • I was featured along with the painting Blue Lily River in the December issue of DC Modern Luxury Magazine: This is the link.

      

 

 

  • I was featured as Artist of the Month in the April 2022 issue of Kensington Neighbors Magazine: Article (on page 14).

 

  • I was interviewed in the Fall of 2021 in preparation for the McLean Project for the Arts Artfest in which I participated: Interview

 

 

 My favorite quotes:

For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream. Van Gogh

 

​It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child. Picasso

 

​Everything you can imagine is real. Picasso

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Since there is no such thing as absolute rightness and truth, we always pursue the artificial, leading, human truth. We judge and make a truth that excludes other truths. Art plays a formative part in this manufacture of truth. Gerhard Richter

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The Arc of the Moral Universe is Long, but it Bends Toward Justice. Martin Luther King

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Les tableaux sont des miroirs magiques, dans lesquels, si l'on sait, en s'éloignant un peu, bien les regarder, d'importes parties de la réalité sont dévoilées. Marcel Proust

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Each color lives by its mysterious life. Kandinsky

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There is no must in art, because art is free. Kandinsky