All about me...
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Artist Statement
"Painting for me is an unabridged experience of surrendering to the beauty of the universe that translates the manifestation of the Divine Presence."
Short Bio
I'm a self-taught artist who learned from books and Youtube videos. I use a limited palette of 5 or 6 colors. For paint, I like Sennelier or M Graham. For paper I mostly use Arches; other papers that I use eventually are Lanaquarelle and Saunders. I'm not particularly picky about brushes; however, I own a variety of synthetic rounds and flats. I like to find new ways to deposit paint on the paper and create new textures, using other tools than a brush.
I hold B.Sc. in Physics, M.Sc. in Astrophysics, and Ph.D. in Physics. I also have a B.A. in Literature. I currently speak several languages and I believe I can only truly understand another culture when I'm able to communicate using their own language. Although science always has been the driving force in my life since I was five years old, I often wonder if I should have been an anthropologist or a historian. I lived in France, Italy, Brazil, and Japan, in order to advance my career in physics. When I finally settled down in USA, I had professor of physics position at Tuskegee University and, later on, at San Jose State Univ.
During the process of illustrating my stories, I started painting watercolors in 2012. Somehow painting took its own path and, before I noticed, I was showing my work in events, galleries, and competitions. In 2016, I started to paint professionally, when I was invited to join a gallery. Everything happened super fast, and I found myself invited to a festival in France in 2019 to where I showed 20 paintings and taught a workshop. I have received an invitation to teach a workshop in Morocco! My work has been shown in the media and my paintings can be found in collections and exhibits around the world.
As I continue to develop as a painter, I also grow as a physicist. I see no separation or opposition since both research and painting require creativity, determination, and a bit of obsession. Physicists and artists share the vision of things that are yet to happen. I'm also an author (using my full last name) of scientific articles in international indexed peer-reviewed journals in physics, chemistry and engineering, and short stories. I enjoy life as it comes: writing fiction, doing high impact sports, traveling, and learning something new from flying to tap-dance, including carving. Recently, I learned how to edit videos and sound effects, so far I'm terrible at them.
It is never too early, it is never too late: everything happens when they should. But time is a thief, start painting today, right now.
I live with my husband, children, cats and plants.
I hope you will enjoy my art.
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