About

Sophie is a French woman born in 1972 in La Rochelle. After high school she moved to Paris to become an engineer and graduated in 1995 in Internet Network Communications.

During a first carrier of 10 years as an engineer in Telecom Companies, Sophie took all the opportunities to benefit from the artist traditions of Paris.

In the museum she felt very inspired by the technique of the old masters, the vitality of the expressionists and by the French sculptors of the nineteenth century like Rodin, Camille Claudel, Carpeau and Dalou.

There, she progressively nourished a strong desire for expressing herself through Art and took part in Art classes in various ateliers.

During her life drawing sessions in l’Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Paris, she felt inspired by the complexity and variety of the human figure. She then decided to further explore its three dimensional expression in sculpture workshops.

When she then moved to London in 2009, she joined the private studio of Hywel Pratley, who is also a teacher in the Florence Academy of Art in Italy. With Hywel and the Florence Academy of Art she discovered her everlasting passion for sculpting, which naturally lead her to study in the full time program under the direction of Robert Bodem.

She will graduate in June 2017. She expects to then open her own studio in Paris in order to perpetuate the tradition of figurative sculpture and atelier inspired by the French sculptors.