Hi, I am Cæsiliæ.

I believe in the healing beauty of Nature and Arts.

My oneiric paintings open a window to radiant realms. They depict luminous reflections, women and floating flowers on water displaying a visual dance of light and feelings. My work appears in several private and public collections around the world and it is regularly exhibited by international galleries and charity organizations dedicated to Women and the Environment. I am a professional artist and mum, I am French and I am currently based in Berlin, Germany. My speciality is to paint in oils.

Cæsiliæ comes from my second civil name, Cecilia, which means blind, fortunate or secret in Latin. In addition, Saint Cecilia (230 AD) was the saint for poets and musicians.

I was born a dreamer with the desire to create. I grew up in France surrounded by Culture and Nature. I early admired the impressionist paintings from the museum of Le Louvre and Orsay where I had my first contact with Fine Arts. I painted my first oil painting at the age of 9… it was a sunset on the sea ! At school, I spent hours illustrating my poetry notebook with colorful flowers, imaginary birds and ponds.

I moved from Paris to the South of France near the Mediterranean Sea at the age of 13 years old with my parents and my two sisters. I spent my free time drawing, sketching and discovering the lands and coasts of Provence.

In 2008 I lost my grand-mother and started to paint around that time. She was a pillar in my life.

In 2011, I made a university exchange to Mexico that changed me profoundly. I took there my first classes of Art and Art History. I graduated the same year from a Master in Business Administration at Grenoble Ecole de Management, France.

In 2012, my family and I faced a terrible tragedy that has marked my life profondly. My mother died in a mountain accident in Corsica. I was 25 years old. A few months before, my first serious and long relationship had just ended. I was upside down. The emotional turmoils continued in a second hearbreak a few years later. The tsunamy of my twenties washed away my landmarks. In 2015, I found a new job, moved to Berlin and started a new life. Besides painting almost every day, I took private classes of academic painting with a recognized irish artist and teacher, and painted more and more.

In 2017, the year of my 30th, I suddenly lost my corporate job as the company went bankrupt, I started selling my first paintings and I became a professional artist since.

Years later, having built strong fondations in myself and in my life, met my loving partner and having our first child together, I see how painting amplifies my joy too. It serves my highest purpose; a devotion to creating and channeling Life, Beauty and Love. I am a Creatrix, Empress of higher realms, and I am also a simple human being in a shape of an artist mum.

My work expresses a path of resilience through the splendors of the world and subtile realms. I invite you to remember and discover those magic lands that lay deep within and beyond us. Where one’s essence emanates, expands and shines. Where one can find consolation, rejuvanation and elevation. I create with my paintings a bridge to other dimensions and new possibilities. Are you ready to open and feel?

Inspiration & process

I am fascinated by reflexions on water, the mirror and feeling of different dimensions water creates with light as well as its subtile dance with the wind. I am delighted by flowers, for they reflect one’s unique flavor, subtility and sensuality. I find my inspiration in my imagination and in the beauty of Nature. I use symbols such as flowers, boats, seascapes, waves and colors as a reference to emotions, souls, journeys, changes and layers of one’s self. My radiant and profond work is mostly spiritually channeled and oniric and it aims to carry a universal, evergreen and uplifting energy.

I initially got inspired by the beautiful waterlilies of Monet and lakes of Klimt, and by the complex compositions and palette of Turner. Besides, I keep observing contemporary female artists who explore feminine energies, movement, curves and the relationship between women, their body, light and water as core and complex elements of nature and life.

I works on multiple layers, allowing the eyes to travel from darkness to light, and from opacity to transparency. I use linseed oil and qualitative eco-friendly canvas to create sustainable artworks respecful of health and Earth. I love oil for its elasticity, subtility and the various effects and pigments the medium offers. In addition, an oil painting can last for centuries, way beyond a life time…

Education & Approach:

Passionate about Art and Art history since my childhood, I have been developing my own style from daily practice during years of devotion. I have also been learning various approches directly from established artists around the world. Eoin Ledewyn for his academic approach and Linzy Artnott for her spiritual one have been my greatest mentors.

I love to combine and explore timeless academic knowledge from old masters with a contemporary touch and my poetic and intuitive approach. I work from home studio in Berlin Schöneberg.

I speak fluent French, English and Spanish and I keep learning German. It give me the opportunity to communicate with international collectors, galleries and institutions from France, Germany, Mexico, Japan, South Korea, Switzerland, Singapore, the US, Canada…