My gaze

"One must retain a touch of childhood in everything."

Henri Matisse

I live by this conviction every day. Creating nourishes my inner child, making it more vibrant with each passing year.

What I paint and how

I never know what a painting will depict before I start it. My painting always emerges from the depths of the unconscious, primarily my own, but also, I believe, something of the collective unconscious. It is abstract, yet composed of a multitude of forms that spontaneously inspire reverie. It's rare for someone to look at one of my works without immediately saying what it evokes for them.

I only paint with watercolor on quality paper, rag or linen, or with oil on canvas. The quality of the material is an essential form of sensuality for me.

My influences

Harmonious and colorful like Matisse, ethnic and raw like Basquiat, dreamlike like Miró, with something of Keith Haring's visual grammar. This is not a program, it's an observation made in retrospect. I paint first. I understand later.

When I transform my paintings into fabrics for the LTDMAP project, in which I photograph people from around the world dressed in my textiles, these same works become transitional objects, spaces for encounter. Painting, photography, humanity: everything is connected.

What my paintings do to those who look at them

Each of my paintings is an invitation to project one's own world, like a Rorschach test. A surface rich and open enough for everyone to find something that belongs to them.

Particularly intense but always joyful, my works are a source from which one never ceases to draw. I want them to fill people with joy and energy. I want them to soothe them by reminding them that there are life forces in the world that transcend us and carry us.

My painting speaks to spiritual sensualists, to the curious who love to settle down and delve within themselves as much as they love to dance and explore the world.