Since the age of two, Camille Philippon has been passionate about animals, which she draws in all their forms, especially African animals which fascinate her. Her parents predicted for her a destiny in Africa alongside the animals. Her passion for drawing led her to study at the Beaux-Arts school of Versailles and to do a master's degree in design at the ENSAAMA Olivier de Serres in Paris, while at the same time studying violin at the Conservatoire of Versailles. As life does nothing by chance, she meets a man of African origin also passionate about culture, with whom she marries and builds a life punctuated by travels in Africa and Asia which feed her inspiration.
Influenced by this double or even triple culture, but also by music, engraving and primitive arts, she meticulously composes the details of her animals, which metamorphose into festive and colorful frescoes.
Touched by the increasing disappearance of wild animals, she seeks to transform them into symbols, as if to make them eternal, pointing out this global phenomenon of extinction. She chooses the path of a shimmering and sensitive optimism, in her quest to pay a poetic tribute to these extinct animals and those about to disappear.
Since the age of two, Camille Philippon has been passionate about animals, which she draws in all their forms, especially African animals which fascinate her. Her parents predicted for her a destiny in Africa alongside the animals. Her passion for drawing led her to study at the Beaux-Arts school of Versailles and to do a master's degree in design at the ENSAAMA Olivier de Serres in Paris, while at the same time studying violin at the Conservatoire of Versailles. As life does nothing by chance, she meets a man of African origin also passionate about culture, with whom she marries and builds a life punctuated by travels in Africa and Asia which feed her inspiration.
Influenced by this double or even triple culture, but also by music, engraving and primitive arts, she meticulously composes the details of her animals, which metamorphose into festive and colorful frescoes.
Touched by the increasing disappearance of wild animals, she seeks to transform them into symbols, as if to make them eternal, pointing out this global phenomenon of extinction. She chooses the path of a shimmering and sensitive optimism, in her quest to pay a poetic tribute to these extinct animals and those about to disappear.