About My work
Artist statement
Born in Paris, I am a French Sculptor living in the West Berkshire ( UK). . I sculpt mainly animal in bronze or bronze resin.
I don't impose a single language on every animal I sculpt. I listen to what each one needs and I find the geometry, the lines and the curves that reveals its presence , its soul and its attitudes.
In a world that never stops adding noise, my work strips everything away and finds what remains, the essential presence of each animal, permanent and unchanged beneath the surface. It's a reminder that beneath complexity there is always a simpler, more powerful truth.
I want the viewer to really look at an animal, to understand its essential nature, to feel its weight and spirit without the distraction of surface detail
My work has been presented at a number of prestigious venues and international art fairs. Highlights include exhibiting alongside thirty of the UK’s leading sculptors at Sculpture by the Lakes, as well as having two works — The Gold Walking Cheetah and Small Sitting Cheetah — selected for exhibition by the Salon des Artistes Français in Paris.
My sculptures have also been shown internationally at the Affordable Art Fair in London, New York, and Hong Kong, introducing my work to collectors and audiences across Europe, the United States, and Asia.
The collections:
Horses and Riders — collection introduction
As a rider myself, the horses have been at the heart of my practice longer than any other subject —This collection represents the most developed body of my work — bronzes that have been through many years of exploration and resolution.
In this collection , I am finding the attitudes and presence of the horse and connection with the human, , the power within simplicity. The riders who appear in some works are not portraits but presences, abstracted figures. Human and animal are aligned in balance and trust, facing the same horizon.
Essence of the Wild — collection introduction
This collection is newer and is more geometry led. Each animal presents a new challenge. The cheetah holds poise , The lion carries authority in every plane.
Bulls and Bears — collection introduction
The bull and the bear share something the other animals do not — a quality of concentrated force of energy and strength.
These are among the most geometrically resolved works in my practice — strong planes, deliberate angles, forms that carry weight in every surface.
Inspired by Birds — collection introduction
Birds present the opposite challenge to the horses and big cats — not mass and power but lightness, air, the geometry of flight.
This is the newest direction in my practice, and these works are the most recent test of my sculptural language. How do you make something that feels weightless out of bronze? How do you distil the essential presence of a creature defined by its relationship with air?
These works are early in their journey — resin forms finding their way toward bronze, a body of work still developing its full voice.
Independent Studies — collection introduction
Some works exist outside the main collections — not because they are lesser, but because they follow their own logic.. the cats, the singular forms that don't belong to a series — these pieces share the same sculptural approach as everything else the same geometric reduction and search for essential presence. They simply arrived independently, following their own path rather than a collection's narrative.
All the collections exist in dialogue.
They are parallel explorations rather than sequential phases. Developments in one body of work continually feed the other, in shape, presence, and the refinement of abstraction.
Each Collections are a reciprocal evolution. they aren’t stepping stones;
they’re conversations..
Influences
My work sits within a sculptural tradition I absorbed long before I consciously understood it. Growing up in France, the great animalier tradition — and François Pompon above all — shaped my instinct that animal form could be reduced to its most essential and most powerful presence without losing its soul. Pompon's pursuit of the irreducible, his ability to strip an animal down to pure form while keeping it completely alive, remains the deepest root of my practice.
From Constantin Brancusi I absorbed something complementary — the understanding that simplification is not subtraction but revelation. That the essential form of a subject is more true and more present than any surface detail could ever be. That less, pursued with rigour and honesty, becomes more.
And from Lynn Chadwick — whose work I love with an immediacy that has always felt like recognition rather than admiration — I found the geometric language that makes my work fully itself. The angular planes, the sharp edges catching light, the ability to make a relatively small bronze feel monumental. Chadwick confirmed something I already knew before I could articulate it.
These three voices are present in my work — absorbed, digested, and I hope transformed into something that is now entirely my own.
My sculpture process
My work develops through a sequence of explorations in which sculptural ideas gradually take form.
The process begins with clay or plasteline exploration studies, where ideas are tested quickly and instinctively. These small pieces allow the structure, weight, attitude and rhythm of the animal to emerge freely.
Some of these explorations lead to larger sculptures realised in resin, where the form becomes stabilised and fully developed. At this stage the sculpture takes on a clearer presence as proportions, balance and composition are resolved.
From this body of work, a small number of sculptures are later cast in bronze, where the form gains permanence and its final sculptural presence.
Each stage plays a different role in the evolution of the sculpture, revealing the path from the first exploration in clay to the completed work. The exploration studies remain as the origins of these sculptures — direct and spontaneous moments where the first ideas of the form appear. Those exploration studies will be available soon via my website ( register your interest my joining my mailing list )
Exploration Studies
→ origins of the ideas
Resin Sculptures
→ first realised sculptural forms
Bronze Sculptures
→ final refined sculpture works