About

I've drawn for as long as I can remember, and I started watercolor at sixteen, on a trip to India. My friend's mother's partner, an architect, had a small palette: he showed me the basics — the colours, how water carries them — then let me try. My first subjects were whatever was around me: a glass, a chair, a table, a tap, some palm trees. Most of all, he taught me to paint the colours I actually saw, not the ones I thought I saw — an idea I really liked.

Back in France, I bought all the gear with my parents. Since then there are stretches when I paint a lot and others when I stop, but I always come back to watercolor.

My style is rather realistic and very colourful. I use watercolor almost like gouache: I like to saturate the colours, which goes a bit against the usual technique. That's where Noachromatic comes from — the love of colour I try to bring out. So each of my watercolors is a slow piece: I paint layer after layer to bring the colour out as much as possible.

Beyond painting, I like to try everything. It's craft in the broad sense that I enjoy, across varied media and supports: acrylic, oil, oil pastel, charcoal, ink, but also stained glass, sign painting, pottery, mosaic… That's why this site shows so many explorations. I'd love to take on as many as I can, even if watercolor is still the bulk of my work today.