The Aphéa studio

From hands to ideas, from ideas to hands

My journey

I think I have always learned the world with my hands.

As a child, I understood that I could bring landscapes to life with my piano. Later, it was clay that I would shape for hours. I loved inventing, making things, without always knowing what I was looking for.

Then the hands gave more room to ideas.

Margot, in her studio

Art history, aesthetics, cultural policy became fields of exploration. For several years I learned to look at works of art, to place them in their history, to understand the thoughts running through them. I discovered Symbolism and, with it, a way of approaching what had always drawn me: the invisible, the silent, that which acts without letting itself be fully explained.

After those five years of study, the irrepressible urge to return to the gesture imposed itself on me.

My practice

Today, clay has never left me. Neither have the piano and linocut. Other materials have joined them, forming a studio where techniques converse freely. It is the call of metal that pushed me to train in jewellery-making, almost self-taught. This material fascinates me — solid and malleable at once, it accepts endless transformation. Today, my studio has become the place where all these explorations can finally live together. Metal converses there with paper, wool, stone and wood. Collections keep being born there, but techniques no longer know any borders.

Margot, in her studio

Why Aphéa

A universe

The name came by chance — or rather, it fell into place. While searching for it, I came across Aphaia, a discreet Greek goddess whose cult was held at the edge of the known world. A figure of the invisible, of the silent — exactly what has always drawn me. Today, Aphéa is the name I give to this space where materials converse. A place on the edge, where forms hesitate, where something can be glimpsed without ever being fully explained.

The Aphéa studio

A few of my inspirations

Claude Debussy sur la plage d'Houlgate (1911)Claude Debussy
Marguerite Carré dans Pelléas et Mélisande, Atelier Nadar (1911)Pelléas et Mélisande
Julia Jackson, photographie de Julia Margaret CameronJulia Margaret Cameron
The Echo, photographie de Julia Margaret CameronJulia Margaret Cameron
Bijou de René Lalique pour Sarah BernhardtRené Lalique
Le Lyrisme dans la forêt, Alphonse OsbertAlphonse Osbert
Soir antique, Alphonse OsbertAlphonse Osbert
Loïe Fuller, sculpture de Théodore RivièreThéodore Rivière
Peigne Assyrie des frères VeverFrères Vever
Peigne Naïade des frères VeverFrères Vever

And many more…

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