My gaze

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

Henri Matisse

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

What and How I Paint

I never know what a painting will depict before I begin it. My art always emerges from the deepest part of the unconscious—mine first, 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 oil on canvas. For me, the quality of the material is an essential form of sensuality.

My Influences

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

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

What My Paintings Do for Viewers

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 wellspring from which one can never stop drinking. I want them to fill people with joy and energy. I want them to bring peace by reminding them that there are life forces in the world that transcend and sustain us.

My painting speaks to spiritual sensualists, to the curious who enjoy settling down and delving within themselves as much as they enjoy dancing and exploring the world.