"While the first name of embroiderers was "the painters of the needle", hand embroidery, textile creation, thread, needle are for me, just like painting or writing, tools of expression, a language made up of codes and symbols.

My work since 2003 consists in considering embroidery differently, as a vector of enchantment.

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I use the hand, the needle and the Lunéville hook that I combine with different finishing techniques, which allows me to modify the appearance of a textile or sometimes to push experimentation until I obtain a new material. , always related to textiles. I am inspired by the treasures of tradition to rediscover them from a new angle.

I mix the classic technical palette which also embraces a personal manufacture of threads and supplies and by inserting everyday surprises: these materials intended for scrap (metals, plastics, fragments of abandoned objects) are gleaned then re-enchanted by different techniques which reveal them or divert them. Thus born a second time, I seize it to testify, embody and transform their destiny. Ennobled or modeled, they fit into my embroideries making these fragmented traces of life loaded with stories, the precious materials of my creations.

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