I was born and raised in Bienne, Switzerland and I have always been passionate in drawing since I first hold a pencil. After a degree at the School of Arts in Berne, I thought I had to become a graphic designer like most of the students back then. Fascinated by architecture and design, I did an internship in an architecture studio. It did not take a long time to realize that my hunger for creative work would have been more satisfied in the advertisement industry. After my apprenticeship, I worked in various advertising agencies.
When I turned 30, I discovered the world of digital painting. In the evenings and on weekends I practiced on my fresh acquired Wacom Cintiq until my hands where sore. I was still working in advertisement when I got asked to work as a designer for illustrating concepts of wellness areas for luxury hotels. It was in that time I’ve started to attend to art events abroad like THU (Trojan horse was a unicorn) in Portugal. It was a life-changing moment for me to meet and talk with other like-minded artists from all over the world. I decided to reduce my work to a part-time job to cope with requests for freelance opportunities. Some years later I found myself working as an industrial designer for luxury Swiss watches. The urge to spend more time on my personal artwork led to the decision to go full freelance. I moved to France because of love and the fact that the cost of living is perceivably lower than in Switzerland, which makes it easier to survive as a freelance artist.
Besides my personal projects I do clients jobs for film and game industry, for marketing illustrations or architecture visualizations amongst many other things. My personal artworks are risen from my own imaginary universe. Inspired by my travels, I want to create worlds that are both familiar and yet unknown. A mix of fantasy and sci-fi are recurrent elements. I am inspired by works of Brom, Moebius, Simon Stålenhag, Piotr Jabłoński and Craig Mullins.
