Séries

This series was undertaken so that I can better understand where I had been living for the past 8 years. To understand the present, you have to "tap" into the past.

I love this valley, this small village full of history, its stones, its flora, its fauna and its people.

Once again, I was just having fun with matter. This time I played with pieces of wood I found during my  forest walks and with leftover rice paper.

This series is inspired by my bird sightings this spring. I was particularly captivated by jackdaws and crows, very intelligent beings. The work evolved a lot while I was researching the symbolism of corvids in various mythologies : Nordic, Celtic, Asian, Native American...

Movement and dance with harmonious interior and exterior gestures to create abundance.
I spent a summer creating recycled paper. I made a hundred sheets.

For the observation of some plants in 2005, I practiced the method of Rudolf Steiner which consists in observing a plant with such a concentration that we can then “duplicate” the plant with all its details, like a perfect photographic image.

« The organs of the vegetating and flowering plant, though seemingly dissimilar, all originate from a single organ, namely, the leaf. » Goethe

This work is the first series after having left the teaching profession.

These watercolors reveal my spiritual experiences from 18 months to 63 years old. They are an inner retrospective of my life so far . They are planned to serve as illustrations for my inner memoirs started 10 years ago.

These images reflect my moments of meditation, visions and inner contemplation of the world. I have practiced"voyaging" beyond the visible for over thirty years. It helps me to be centered and more open to others.

During the holidays in 2006, I stayed in Switzerland for a few weeks to help a friend start a vegetable garden. I found a lot of snails on his lawn. The shape of the snail has fascinated me. Since childhood.

Nature inspires me.

I look around me, I learn and I develop an inner life filled with unknown landscapes, always a reflection of nature. These inner landscapes remain enigmatic for me. It is by a groping intuition that I try to get them out of me.

Masks for theatre, carnival, or wall decoration

"We all wear a mask, it's well known, and comes a moment where we can not remove it without tearing our skin off." -André Berthiaume

The soft, supple and round shapes of certain marine animals call to me. Their eternally feminine grace resonates in my heart. In turn, I make matter resonate ...

Some special works over the years ...

This series represents a retrospective of my inner experiences from my earliest childhood up to 48 years old. The impetus for this work was given to me at the age of 28.

I studied the I-Ching for a year, from January 2006 to December 2006. Almost every day, I immersed myself in the great wisdom, inherited from three thousand years of Chinese cultural history, contained in the I-Ching.

This series was made for the pleasure of discovering linoleum engraving.

"Finding order is to know the constant.
Knowing the constant is enlightenment "
Lao Tse

This new series on the seasons of energy has gone through many stages. Initially, I was inspired by the archetypal plant in its growth throughout the seasons.

An Ancient and Modern Alchemical Way. "The creative forces radiate from all points of the sky towards the earth and determine all earthly things." Roger Bacon (1214-1294).

"On the threshold of chaos" is a term coined by contemporary scientists who do research in the field of "complexity science." I quote Roger Lewis, author and publisher: "The science of complexity offers us a way to move beyond reductionism, because it is a science that includes the world not as a

"We are the bees of the Universe. We harvest the visible honey in the great golden hive of the invisible. "
Rainer Maria Rilke

"I demand a better form of thought, feeling and will. These are the true aesthetic criteria. "