PAINT : (continued...)

(...) I was the architecture student who, in spite of everyone, always produced her plans in colour in a world strictly devoted to black, white and the occasional hint of gray. Painting has always been part of my life, I even worked as a "painter and decorator" for years, producing frescoes and glazes in my own way (these were actually glazes obtained by superimposition of colours, using the technique of the Old Masters).

So it was entirely natural for me to create a range of colours; all I had to do was draw on my own experience. And perhaps it is exactly that which sets my range apart from all the other ranges which have flourished since: it is not the result of research in a style consultancy, but the living memories of so many building sites where I flitted around on the scaffolding (like those mischievous kittens). Of course, the taste is different, more uncompromising, perhaps more accomplished! (...)