About me

I was born in France and moved to French Polynesia when I was 4 years old with my parents, sister and brother. This was the very first pivotal moment of my life. The one change that contributed to who I am today the most. 

I feel french, turkish, polynesian and that's why I like to call myself a citizen of the world. I know each of these cultures have shaped me into the woman I am today and I know I owe my adaptation skills to these beautiful and different lands and people.

My parents are travelers so after three different islands,few years in France, two different oceans and many trips with them we moved back to Bordeaux. I was 16 years old and being back was hard! 

My mother had understood that an artist lived in me much sooner than I did so she pushed me to pick art in highschool. "Litteraire/option arts plastiques" they call it in french so on top of studing litterature, history and foreign languages I finished highschool by spending 10 hours a week in the art class. This was a blessing and made my life back in France easier.

Graduated, left for London to study english, questioned everything, back in Bordeaux for a year and finally made the big move to Paris to study acting. 

Acting was my first love, the first dream, what I thought I'd end up doing as a job since I was 9 years old.

Simultanously modeling appeared in my life and I started to travel for pageants and photoshoots.

And kismet... my first job made me land in Turkey.

The love story between Turkey and I started, I was 20years old, I was absolutely enchanted, I loved Istanbul, turkish people, the Bosphorus, the charming mess that this city was. It was hypnotizing in some ways.

Two years later, I packed up my acting dreams with me and moved to Istanbul. I was supposed to teach french for three months and then go back to Paris. 

I never left! And I have been here, in Turkey, for 18 years! 

Istanbul has seen me grow, change, expand, some days it crushed me and somedays it built me.

One marriage/three wonderful children/one divorce  later I now live in my most favorite neighborhood of the city, I speak turkish, I teach french, I act sometimes and art is back!

About 8years ago I found myself needing to express my deepest feelings, I started acting again, singing more often, writing, composing even..... and painting, unexpectedly made its grand comeback into my life.

Back in highschool, I lacked self confidence so very much that I convinced myself that painting was not my art, that I wasn't good enough. In my mind painting was a set of skills I didnt have, a talent that I wasnt gifted with. It took me 16years to finally listen to my inner voice and buy myself canvases, paints and brushes. I started painting and told no one, it was like a secret, a sacred place I had to protect. Slowly but surely painting became a meditation to me, a conversation with my subconcious mind, a way to connect with the divine.

And the more I paint, the more I remember that art is not only a set of skills or talent it also and especially is an expression of the heart and soul.