« Talking about my job is talking about a quest.

Quest for Beauty, for Harmony. »

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Thus, whether it is a question of copies of old or creations of a more contemporary nature, my gesture is entirely turned towards this aspiration to beauty and harmony.

But it is not just a matter of external beauty linked to the richness of the materials used or the abundance of ornaments.

Nor is it a question of beauty linked only to"beautiful work" (perfection of a line, accuracy of a tone, mastery of complex techniques), simple beauty which would only appeal to the senses.

No, the beauty referred to here is of a more subtle nature. She is the one who discreetly and silently strives to manifest the Sacred. Arousing the quivering of the sacred, such could be the vocation of this quest.

To illuminate is to write a hymn to Beauty, « beauty that uplifts hearts, consoles and makes one enter into delight » Jacqueline Kelen, Les floraisons intérieures.

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« To illuminate is also to invite you to travel… Everyone is invited to abandon any gaze that would seek to grasp, enclose, imprison. » 

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The gaze expected for this trip is a contemplative gaze, which requires both interiority and height; patience, intuition, sensitivity and meditation.

Only this gaze will be able to let itself be filled by the beauty hidden in everything ; in all these fresh and colorful images, enveloped in tenderness that are medieval illuminations: fabulous bestiaries, enchanted forests, angelic choirs, harmony of the spheres, labors of the months, wheel of the zodiac or of the winds, sweet dialogue between Heaven and Earth, between the lights from above and the beauties from below, between the visible and the invisible.

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« Every visitor becomes a pilgrim, walking silently towards Beauty, Light and Harmony, a symbol of our incessant aspiration to surpass oneself and the quest for the absolute. »

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There, « everything would speak

to the soul in secret

its sweet native language".

Charles Baudelaire, Invitation au voyage. »