Born in Toulouse, France, Alexia began already at the age of six with the noted La Rochelle painter, J. Jousseaume-Barbas, with whom she acquired a knowledge of technique. She left for the United States in 1991 with a view to studying a new approach to contemporary art. She spent a year in Buffalo, Wyoming, wining a third prize in mixed techniques in an exhibition in Douglas.
 On her return to France in 1992, she pursued additional courses in Paris over three years. Thus, after having become acquainted with several ateliers , among them that of J.L. Chollet, known in France for his oils and his analysis of the techniques used in the 17th and 18th centuries. On her return from Paris, she took part in various salons and exhibitions, both individual and collective, in among other places La Rochelle, Paris, Bucharest and the U.S. She chose to settle in La Rochelle in 1995, where she retains her atelier to this day.
 In addition to being an artist and painter, Alexia also dabbles in other forms of art, including scenography and the theater, by way of costume design as well as having contributed to the staging of two operettas recently in her native Toulouse.

Alexia,
between dream and
reality

 

   " In her paintings, there is always an aperture that presents itself in the form of a crack onto a more or less hidden scene. Alexia herself says " Life is a theater. It is all in the spirit, between the conscious and the unconscious, a curtain that parts from one time to the other. " In effect, her paintings appear as an attempt at perceiving this permanent dialogue between the real and the imaginary. In these canvases, on each side of the veil, nude men run in pursuit of their ideal form where they find themselves trapped by the fragmentary reflections of their lost humanity … Her quest shakes our certitudes and makes us tremble "
Charles Vincent

Laureate
Défi-Jeunes
1999

 

 
   
   " … She paints life, drapes, bodies, which choregraph themselves. She sketches a theater waiting for actors… It is for this reason she created the work " Between Dream and Reality ", in which several forms of art are interwoven : theater, acrobatics, gestures, paintings… With her play on the frame in the manner of Magritte, she creates a living scene. In her painted drapes, her curtains that open and shut on an imaginary scene, where the actor becomes a statue or silhouette, she adds another dimension - that of life itself. Between the false scenes and the real actors, there is obviously an impression of trompe l'œil. This is her very own search for reality. "
Thomas Brosset