I was born of an architect-painter father and a mother trained in the fine arts.

I have always drawn, painted, and cut as far as I can remember, even if it hasn't always been my main activity (I've worked before in the fields of communications, marketing and education).

I live and work in Paris, France. Sometimes in Burgundy.

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I have a taste for line and construction - e.g. architectural elements, references to antiquity. I always give a major role to colour in my works. I am strongly influenced by French decorative arts, but also modern to contemporary arts.

 

My subjects - fantasized but possible architectures, landscapes, interiors - are jostled by the appearance of animals silhouette or a furtive, even suggested human presence.
If it is not the subject, life is nevertheless close by.

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The techniques I use range from graphic design through acrylic to the more traditional use of watercolour on arches paper, but always with flat tints of colour and a clean rendering.

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My creations sometimes escape flatness to become ornamental designs (homeware accessories, wallpaper & fabrics, cartonnages, decoupages...) like the 3-D continuity of my work.

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Nulla dies sine linea
(No day without a line. Pas un jour sans une ligne.)

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Portrait of me now by Lora Barra - Portrait of me then by my father.