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PAINTING ON THREE CONTINENTS
Born in Maryland to a Franco-American couple, I grew up astride the Atlantic. I moved to Paris for high school, passed my “baccalauréat litéraire” and returned to the United States for college. At Yale I studied Comparative Literature, and then returned to Paris to work as an English language journalist for ten years (Newsweek, UPI, Agence France-Presse and National Public Radio).
I had thought writing would be my métier, until at 27 I broke up with my journalist boyfriend and fell headlong into painting. Another writer introduced me to the pastel artist Pierre Skira, with whom I would study for 15 years. Skira was an assistant teacher in the studio of Leonardo Cremonini, who in turn accepted me in his atelier at the Beaux-Arts School in Paris.
Later I learned monotype, in René Tazé’s printing studio. I met the painter and print-maker Jean-Baptiste Sécheret there. He introduced me to plein-air painting with his class at the Architecture School of Belleville, where I became his assistant, and then his substitute. I found that in situ landscape painting was the bridge between my three continents.
Today I again live between two countries – France and Uruguay, where I set up my second studio in 2006.
EXHIBITIONS & PRIZES (SELECTION)
2021
Galería Sur, Punta del Este
2019
Semana de Cultura Francesa, Punta del Este
2018
Musée d'Art de L'Isle-Adam
Mairie de Trouville, Normandie
Galerie Argentine, Paris
2013
Galerie Sit Down, Paris.
2012
Galeria Menéndez, Buenos Aires.
Les Tanneries du Pays de Conches, Normandie.
2011
Galerie Sit Down, Paris.
2010
Espace Culturel les Dominicaines, Pont l'Evêque.
2009
Galerie Canal Pictures & Art, Paris.
2008
Burton Marinkovitch Gallery, Washington DC.
2007
Galeria Isabel Anchorena, Buenos Aires.
Prix Business et Décision, Paris.
2006
Bank of Inter-American Development, Washington DC.
2004
Galerie du Vert Galant, Paris.
2002
Galerie CROUS, Paris.
1998
L’Art au Marché, Saint Cloud.
1995
La Grande Masse des Beaux-Arts, Paris.
1994
Salon de Montrouge, France.
1991
Lauréate du concours « La Femme Enfin ».
Orangerie du Luxembourg, Paris.
Réfectoire des Jacobins, Toulouse.