My Artistic Universe

My painting is instinctive. My colors, my faces tell a story that follows me, touches me. These gazes that inspire me take shape in a colorful universe where the spectator becomes the observed subject.

The gaze, the intensity of certain narratives move forward, and I transcribe them as a universal story, with bold, defined colors.

Intense color is a guiding thread, that of time and the sometimes intense steps that shape and define us.

My characters then observe me, they question me in turn. These portraits, often framed like a photograph, seem zoomed in, magnified. They are the witnesses of my story, they look at me and, in turn, offer me moments of life.

These faces appear in the form of a man, a woman, a child who resemble each other and seem to constantly impose themselves on me. I question our memories, the part of childhood that remains in us, our scars that seem to shape our faces. My work continuously questions our past, our encounters, our losses, telling a personal story that is nonetheless so common and universal to us all. I live and work in Paris.

My Journey

Painting has always been part of my life, my paternal grandmother, my brother, are passionate painters and draftsmen. My grandmother inspired me, and I carry her artistic imprint within me.

After completing a Bac in Visual Arts and Literature, I joined a preparatory school for Fine Arts at the Hourdé ESAT workshop, then I studied art history at ICART. I then worked in art publishing, luxury ready-to-wear, and later in corporate patronage and communication.

During all these years, I attended drawing and painting classes at the Ateliers du Carrousel at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris (Nissim de Camondo). Painting is an act, a necessary practice, sometimes difficult to deliver, yet it is an obvious choice for me today. For the past few years, I have fully dedicated myself to it.

Amor Fati

The series Amor Fati was born from a resolutely spontaneous artistic practice.

I worked on this series in the form of sketches, studies.

The gesture is quick in order to free and inscribe on the canvas intimate, lost figures, portraits of strangers who also seem anchored in my past.

It is a painting of memory and trauma made of successive stains, sometimes involuntary, and key, ghostly, loved characters.

It is a work at the crossroads of our intimate and visible parts, on our connections, our memories that fade over time.

My characters are blurry, fragmented to assert time, that of memory.

They are isolated and seem to be observing or lost in this abstract universe.

These figures fade away and question us about our place and that of those who are absent.

VLFineart’s Vision

Stéphanie’s work, marked by intense colors, gives life to men, women, and static figures imbued with stories. Through them, she recounts the wounds of the past with striking emotional depth.