About me

I am French although I spent my entire adult life in the UK and in Luxembourg where I still live. I am forever in awe of the beautiful scenery this tiny country has to offer, from fairy-tale castles overlooking green valleys, to deep enchanting forests with extraordinary rock formations, through rivers and vineyards…

I come from a long line of curious and inventive people. As a child my parents worried as they often caught me daydreaming, fascinated as I was by stories and books, especially the ones involving costumes, hats and veils.

When I was 8, my Grand Father surprised me with a child size Singer sewing machine for my birthday. It was operated by 6 big batteries and made a sound inversely proportional to its size.

Short of available fabric, I started sewing with crepe paper and my first piece was a yellow and red paper bikini and a tutu.

I still love to make out-of-the-ordinary costumes whenever I get the chance, and I feel best when I can write, draw, paint, print, pleat, knit, smudge, stick, ink…. I also have a thing for cigar boxes, did you know there are no two boxes the same as they are made up to the size of the cigars they will contain? I cannot help entering cigar shops as they often throw away their spare boxes.

I am now on a mentoring program with the author-illustrator Emily Haworth-Booth in writing and illustrating books for small and big people, and I regularly contribute comics to a zine anthology.

My short comic ‘The Sock Problem’ is being published in a forthcoming issue of Pencil magazine. The General was longlisted for the DPictus Unpublished Picture Book Showcase and the World Illustration Awards. The General and The Best Pigeon in Plumeville both draw on my experience of dress making and my love of fashion, which infuse the story and illustrations.