Myriam is a French illustrator and fine artist based in London, in the UK.
After working in the film industry as a prosthetic make-up artist for several years, she turned to art as a full-time practice in 2018.
She primarily uses water-based mediums on paper, as well as graphite and coloured pencils.
Her work endeavours to walk the line between surrealism and absurdism, with a focus on darker themes and existential concepts.

“I create from a desire to connect more deeply with the absurd and the incomprehensible. A sudden trauma at a very young age rattled my already shaky understanding of the world to such a level that it shook me loose from any sense of grounding. A part of me feels like it lost its footing in an almost permanent way. While I would like to think I have a strong sense of self and a solid personal foundation, there are ways in which I feel I am floating a few inches off the ground, and in parallel to the real world, rather than being grounded in it. I find life to be and feel both deeply familiar and intensely alien, and my art is my way to try and connect the dots and fully experience the complexities, contradictions and contrasts that make up the world around and inside me.

My art has always been my way of finding connection and extract understanding, and is the most meaningful approach I have found to reach out and relate to others who may be experiencing life in a similar way. The response my work has received and the connections it has allowed me to foster are an intrinsic part of why I create it.

Life can be so deeply overwhelming, but also awe-inducing, and never ceases to interlace pain and beauty, and I find art to be the most fulfilling way for me to come to terms with the turmoil and get to a state of acceptance rather than resistance.“