About

My work is driven by contemplation of nature, the oceanic universe, as well as human and animal bodies.
My studio is located in the countryside of south-west France, where I grew up. This rooting brings me back to basics and offers me an inspiring work environment surrounded by nature. I started working in wooden art craftsmanship about ten years ago; first as a furniture maker, then as a sculptor, for renowned creators and artists in various countries. This brought me technical experience and an appreciation for quality, which today are very important to me.

All my creations come from a desire to initiate an exchange, an interaction between body, mind and material. This feeling emerges through a personal relationship with the material, led by how my own body reacts to physical contact with the material, and how it guides me to shape it, deform it, remodel it… Discovering stone and its faculties created in me a surge of creativity: it requires confrontation and understanding while offering almost endless possibilities. I like to understand the material through a dialogue from which emanates our respective abilities, testing it and testing myself in order to go further.

This conversation between body and material is expressed through curves in balance with the stone’s or wood’s inherent nature. Forms and sensations are revealed through a transfer from anatomy to material: muscles, tendons, cartilage, bones, skin, shell and tissues all mingle with veins, grain, nuts, cracks and crystals. In this way, marble and wood manifest beauty, strength, flexibility but also weakness and sensibility, integrating and accepting its fractures and traumas.