How can we be more present to beauty?
mountains, ice, air and snow.
A few years ago, I stood in Chamonix and saw how far the glacier La Mer de Glace had retreated. The ice was now a distant memory carved into rock.
That moment was the beginning of my transformation as an artist.
I paint alpine landscapes not as they look, but as they feel: fragile, immense, shifting, alive.
Landscapes where silence becomes a guide, where memory dissolves into color, where we remember that we are part of nature — not above it
The Vénéon is a torrent whose water comes from the Ecrins glaciers
Connecting with the sensitivity of a place
The delicate, fragile line of a branch, a flower peeking out from the snow,
a moss-covered rock, transparent ice dripping, a mountain ablaze at sunset, snow crunching underfoot, the smells and sounds of a glacier, a bearded vulture soaring high against a cobalt backdrop—
these are the magical experiences that forge our connection to nature and to life itself.
The mountains inhabit my imagination and manifest themselves in my paintings, which find their way between inner landscapes and places I have traveled to and loved.
There, one often finds calm, wonder, and the feeling of being alone in the world.
My work is an exploration of dissolution — of how the self can vanish into light, into silence, into the endless unfolding of nature. Painting, for me, is a passage into stillness. In the studio, I enter a space where time loosens, and the boundary between myself and the world becomes porous.
The canvas begins in dialogue with natural elements: the shifting blues of glacial ice, the muted tones of stone, the quiet weight of a horizon line. Through layers of transparent and opaque color, brushstrokes, and delicate drips, my abstract landscapes evoke both vastness and intimacy — spaces where the viewer can inhabit stillness and motion at once.
Lovers of mountains and nature will find here a place to breathe and vibrate.
Galleries
EVENTS
Artistic journey
podcast vlog
La Galerie, Tignes, France
Balta Gallery, Santander, Spain
Chalet Art Store, Châtel, France
Dec 25 - Apr 26 - la Galerie, Tignes
Dec 24 - Apr 25 - la Galerie, Tignes
Dec. 24 - Jan. 25 - Christmas group show, Balta Gallery, Santander, Spain
Oct. 2024 - Les Automnales, “Traces” , Fort Barraux
May - June 2024 - Traverses, un voyage poétique - Peintures et sculptures de Bénédicte Allée, André Marastoni et Pascal Massonnat, Ferme de Bressieux, Bassens, 73
May - 2023 - Etats d’âmes - Exposition collective / group exhibition - Fort Barraux, Barraux
Apr. - May - 2023 - Temporary feeling of Permanence - Paintings - La galerie du Passage; Autun
Dec. 2022 - Temporary feeling of Permanence - Paintings - L’Estancot, Theys
Oct. 2022 - Les Automnales, Fort Barraux, prix de peinture pour / award for « Le refuge abandonné »
Jul. 2022 - June 2023 - Le Détour, Grenoble
Dec. 2021 - Quartier d’artistes, Montmélian
May 2019 - Paysages abstraits - L’Estancot, Theys
Nov. 2018 - Dessins et sculptures - L’Estancot, Theys
Nov. 2024 Art retreat , ARTFUEL, Susan Melrath and Terri Froelich, Portugal
2020 - 2025 - A2L Academy member
2022 + 2023 + 2024 - Creative Visionary Program - ART2LIFE Sausalito , USA
2022 - Approaches to Abstraction - Tutor Sally Hirst, UK
October 2021 - Art retreat with Nicholas Wilton and Terri Froelich, ART2LIFE, La Serrania , Majorque
2021 - Creative Visionary Program - ART2LIFE Sausalito , USA
2021 - Confident Composition - Tutor Sally Hirst , UK
2020 - Creative Visionary Program - ART2LIFE Sausalito , USA
2020 - SPARK - ART2LIFE Sausalito , USA
2015 - 2019 - Modèle vivant dessin, sculpture / life drawing and sculpture classes - Ateliers tous publics ESAD Grenoble
La bulle artistique par Bénédicte Murail
Bénédicte Murail invited me on her podcast “La bulle artistique” . We discussed inspiration and process. It was really great chatting with her. Click here to listen to this episode (French) : La curiosité, c’est comme de l’amour… Curiosity is like Love…
Artist Spotlight par Nino Yuniardi Nino invited me to an artist Spotlight, to talk about my story as an artist, my inspiration, and my process.
Nino is very supportive of emerging artists. He runs an artist community, the Spice Art Club, of which I have been a member since the beginning.
Take a peek behind the scenes as I work in my sketchbook, abstracting a landscape with unusual colors.
It’s never too late
From therapist to artist
For my (already) second career I followed my curiosity for human life, its ups and downs, and my desire to help. Helping others to bring out their potential and become the person they want to be, personally or professionally, is still very rewarding.
In 2010 I was struck by cancer, and in these hard times, tapping into my creativity allowed me to keep my zest for life. When my brain was in good working order despite the fatigue and the treatments, I spent my time drawing in ink, one of my favorite mediums at that time or sculpting in clay.
From there I decided that art should have a real place in my life. In order to make my art more grounded , I took art classes at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Grenoble-Valence for 4 years.
In 2020 and 21, I completed Nicholas Wilton's Creative Visionary Program, developed a professional practice and became a member of the Art2Life Academy.
I now combine my art practice with my work as a therapist and a coach, and offer artist mentoring sessions.