Native of St Quentin, Marie studied graphic arts in the late 70's at the Met de Penninghen studio in Paris. Her attraction for large - framed is coming from theatre sets she initially painted. She taught fine art at Paris and Lyon high schools for 15 years. Today, she devotes herself to painting and more precisely to watercolours for the past 10 years. She combines drawing accuracy with the energy of colours, transparency and fluidity with the light which emanates from it. Influenced by the Pop Art movment and classic painters, she draws her inspiration from varying topics of her own environment. She is fond of warm and bright tonalities. She also likes working on conveying materials such as zing, glass or metal. Marie'paintings express nostalgia for real life objects, old and worn out.