THE HIGH PRIESTESS

Objects of devotion.

I grew up among my father’s sculptures and my mother’s paintings. In a home where materials are transformed, forms come to life, and art is a way of inhabiting the world.

From an early age, I learned to see things differently. To look for what goes beyond an object’s function: a presence, a memory, an emotion.

In Saint-Guilhem-le-Désert, discovering natural stones marked the beginning of a fascination. Their quiet strength, their rugged surfaces, their colors, everything they seem to hold within them. Later, after a career in fashion, I returned to this certainty: working with materials, shaping them by hand, giving form to the invisible.

Trained at the Haute École de Joaillerie on rue du Louvre in Paris, I learned the techniques, precision, and high standards of the craft. Then I set out to find my own language. A language of metal and stones, sculptural volumes, and singular forms.

I forge, I polish, I shape.

Metal resists, stone reveals. Every gesture calls for time and attention, and sometimes for letting go. In the studio, the material guides as much as it allows itself to be transformed. Little by little, a form emerges. It seems as though it has always been there.

I choose stones for what they reveal, but also for what they suggest: a strength, a light, a mystery. I bring them together, repurpose them, set them in tension with metal. The jewel then becomes more than an adornment. It becomes a presence.

LA PAPESSE is a way of being.

It means believing in the power of objects, in the signs we keep close, in forms that resemble us without ever quite defining us. It means creating freely, conveying emotion, and making room for intuition and the unexpected.

My jewels are contemporary talismans. Fragments of art to wear, singular pieces shaped by hand, imbued with material, history, and intention.

They don’t all tell the same story. They await their encounter with someone.

Objects of devotion. Distinctive jewels. Fragments of self.