illustrator, author and visual artist

My research as an illustrator stems from a striving for the symbolic and the archaic, from a desire to explore the roots of the collective imagination through a language that intertwines myth, sacred subjects and nature. Traditions, rituals, inviolate landscapes, the silent gestures of ancestors: everything that lies on the margins of modernity becomes for me a terrain of research and narration.

Illustration is not a simple accompaniment to the written word, but an independent tool for evocation and reflection. I work with traditional materials — gouache, tempera, pastels and pigments, paper and canvas — to convey slowness, listening, and layering. The image is a meditative space, sometimes obscure, inhabited by symbols that do not claim to resolve, but rather hope to open up questions.

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I tell stories that are not linear, but cyclical, ritualistic and archetypal. Stories that belong not to us as individuals, but as part of a community. These stories are tools for thought and healing, capable of reactivating shared memories beyond space and time. I think of my work as a form of reconnection with what we have forgotten to see: the depth of the symbol, the language of ancient materials, the time of the earth.