There’s something liberating about cutting things up.

In recent months, I’ve found myself returning to a more physical, tactile way of creating, surrounded by scissors, fragments, and silence. Les Découpés, my new collage series, was born from this instinct: the desire to deconstruct and reassemble what I once painted, not out of destruction, but out of reverence.

Each work in the collection is hand-assembled from elements of my previous paintings, lips, eyes, gold details, earrings, all once belonging to muses I spent years painting. Now, these fragments are rearranged into new compositions. The muse is gone, but her presence lingers.

Why cut something that was already whole? Because beauty doesn’t always lie in the intact. It lives in reinterpretation. In bold choices. In letting go of the illusion of perfection.

The process is deeply expressive. I don’t plan these compositions digitally or sketch them in advance. I move shapes on the table, rearrange, reject, keep, commit. Every piece is a dance between intuition and design.

Like Matisse’s cut-outs, Les Découpés are about form and freedom. But they’re also about femininity: what remains, what’s lost, and what becomes iconic through fragmentation.

The new icons
This series is a visual continuation of my artistic universe, and also a rupture. A new language. A shift from figuration to suggestion.

In these works, you’ll find:

  • A single eye that still sees.
  • A pair of lips mid-sentence.
  • A golden earring, still whispering its story.

Each artwork is original and one-of-a-kind, and like my paintings, they speak to bold femininity, elegance, and transformation.

A new phase
I don’t see Les Découpés as a side project. I see them as my new colleagues. They carry the legacy of my past work and push me toward something new, more poetic, more distilled, more symbolic. They belong in homes that embrace both refinement and edge. These works are intimate in scale but large in feeling. They’re layered, tactile, and unapologetically artistic.

If you’ve followed my journey, you’ll recognize their DNA. But you’ll also feel their independence.

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Les Découpés