She is 9 years old when her family moves to the French Riviera. At the age of 14, she starts taking photographs, learns the laboratory work in Grasse in a photos club. As a teenager, her interests also go to writing, music, philosophy and psychology, a discipline she will study later at the University of Nice. She leaves France with 19 years old and stays 6 month in the French West Indies, and then two years in Venezuela where she works by herself, creating handmade jewels.
When SYL comes back to France, she wishes to orient herself towards Plastic Arts.
In 1989, she meets Ricmeric, a great painter and thinker.
They stay together in Marbella (Spain) where Syl learns from RIC and books, the classical oil painting and drawing techniques. Three years later, she comes back to Photography and completes her knowledge of the art and technique of Photography. Nature becomes her favourite subject.
The couple move to Hamburg where Photography becomes SYL’s main activity. She produces drawings, experimenting different medium such as charcoal, sanguine and pastels. At that time, various personal exhibitions take places (Photography, Pastels, Oils), along with audio-visual shows conceived and realized together with Ric.
In 1999, SYL and RIC come back to France. They discover the electronic world, and learn how to use a computer. Passionate by the possibility offered by the Internet, SYL starts to learn how to design websites. In 2000, with the help of RIC, she creates the first version on the Web of "ART’IMAGE Virtual Gallery" introducing their artworks.
During the year 2000, SYL and RIC go back to live in Germany, north of Berlin, where the couple paint large murals in Hotels. During this period, SYL completes her impressive photographic work on the abstract and figurative expressions of Nature in the course of the seasons, so called "contemplative photography". She also researches on the chromatic basis of light, leading to her "experimental photography".
In 2004, the couple move back to Marbella. SYL starts a new approach to photography through the use of Digital Camera and Photoshop software.
In 2006, she carried out a various commissioned digital art. SYL also continues to improve her skills in web design, learning the use of Adobe Flash.
In 2007, “A Perfect World” exhibition takes place at the Prado23 (Marbella-Spain) introducing a new vintage of Digital Art based on her photos of commercial centres and mannequins.
Syl & Ric are now settled in Marbella (Spain). In 2008, the couple decided to start a screenwriter career.
Studies & Degrees:
1984: College 'Amiral de Grasse' - Grasse ( F)
Baccalaureate "Economic and Social Sciences"
1984-1986: University of Nice - Nice ( F)
Degree in Psychology (D.E.U.G)
Languages spoken: French, Spanish, English, some German…
List of solo exhibitions:
1992- Reese Gallery - Oil paintings and Drawings (Hamburg, Germany)
1996- Klein Heinrich Gallery – Photography (Glückstadt, Germany)
1998- Galerie du Moulin – Photography exhibition + audio-visual show based on Syl’s photographs (Grasse, France)
2003- Kiosque des Arts - (Cannes, France)
2007 - “Perfect World”: exhibition at the Prado23 (Marbella-Spain) Digital photomontage printed on canvas (Giclée) -
List of collective exhibitions:
1991- “El Chico”- Oil paintings and Drawings, together with Richard Meric (Marbella, Spain)
1994- Sophia-Antipolis Gallery - Oil paintings (Antibes, France)
1994 - Antibes (France) - Marché des Artistes -
1995- Reese Gallery - Oil paintings and Drawings, together with Richard Meric (Hamburg, Germany)
1997- Glückstadt Kino - Oil paintings, Drawings and Photographs + audio-visual show based on Syl’s photographs, together with Richard Meric (Glückstadt, Germany)
2000- Reese Gallery - Oil paintings, Drawings and Photographs - (Hamburg, Germany)
2003- Kiosque des Arts - (Cannes, France) -
