Elise, painter 🇫🇷

♥ Do you remember your first aesthetic shock?
At the cinema when I saw Baz Luhrmann’s Moulin Rouge, at the age of 12. A visual and auditory slap in the face that conditioned my creative process that links visual arts with music, cinema, poetry.

♥ The artist you would like to meet? What would you say to her?
Niki de Saint Phalle. I would tell her that she showed me that art deals with trauma and that asserting yourself as a woman artist in your relationship and society is possible.

♥ What is your favourite colour? What does it inspire you?
I love flesh tones. They are mesmerizing and explicit of emotions depending on their hue.

♥ Which museum gives you the greatest emotion? Why do you ask?
The Musée d’Orsay, far ahead of all others. First of all, the place is magnificent: I feel overwhelmed by Beauty in the central aisle. There are so many artists whose technique and composition fascinate me.

♥ Which work of art would you buy without hesitation if you had an unlimited budget?
Suzanne Valadon’s “The Blue Room”.

♥ In which city do you feel happiest? Why do you think so? Share your 3 favourite addresses.
One of the reasons I chose a life on the move is that I’m still looking for the city I won’t want to leave.

♥ What book keeps you up all night?
Correspondence between Albert Camus and Maria Casarès

♥ What are your biggest sources of inspiration?
The mountains, walks in museums and the cinema.

♥ What’s the funkiest thing you’ve done in your life?
I left my friends and my Parisian life to convert a van into a home-studio on wheels all by myself and live from a permanent trip. All this before I even had my licence…

♥ What is your definition of happiness?
Not having to wonder how to achieve it anymore.