Photo @Adam Kenna

  

I am a French-Australian illustrator, author and painter based in Perth, Western Australia. I hold a Master’s in Art (Illustration), and years of illustrating and publishing children’s picture books — including a Kate Greenaway Medal nomination. What once lived on book pages now breathes in large paintings.

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The work is about the meaning of home and belonging, the emotional landscapes of connection, leaving, identity, and the search for rootedness in a life shaped by movement.

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For the longest time I have carried two sentences inside me like small lanterns, yearning for more. One by Albert Camus: “In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”

The other, by Maya Angelou: “You only are free when you realize you belong to no place”. These words still guide me.

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I keep returning to a simple tension: at home everywhere, nowhere, or caught between. A house, a town, a country can be home. For me it is also an inner place, harder to point to, that I have to make and remake.

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The paintings hold that question without answering it. The line is still the line from the sketchbooks — searching, sometimes unfinished, mixed with bold strokes. On canvas it simply has more air. Stillness is part of the making. So is the moment after a fall, when something begins again.

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When I am not in the studio, I love to go for a run or a swim. The rest of the looking happens in seasons, travel, books, film, and photography.​
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