Is it the whole palette of purples and violets, associated with wines and with the grapes of our land, mixed with the golds, reds and the lustrous bronzes of the end-of -summer on the vine branches? Is it all of that, under our dazzling all-engulfing blue sky which allowed the wine maker, winery director and company manager towards oils, canvases, palate knife and paint brushes?

There is a paradox also in her influences. Admirer and imitator of Nicolas de Stael who passed from abstract to figurative art and of Zao Wou Ki the painter and poet and of his abstract landscapes coming from calligraphy, who, in contrast went from figurative to abstract.

But was it not Nicolas de Stael who said that a painting should be both abstract and figurative?