Born in Lille and now based in Antibes, Christine Thery Demore had her talent recognized early in childhood. It was the nuns at her school, moved by her natural gift for drawing, who encouraged her parents to enroll her in the Beaux-Arts. But the times, mentalities, and family circumstances decided otherwise: young Christine entered a school of accounting, then stenography. Only later, through the twists and turns of life, would she find her way back to creation.
Married at 17 and mother of three, Christine began by painting and restoring furniture. She learned sanding, priming, and working with materials. Then, in 1984, the family left Lille to settle on the French Riviera. There, in the 1990s, she founded her own artisan business and trained in a variety of techniques: dry painting, oil painting, illustration, calligraphy, faux marble, and grotesques. Soon, wood gave way to canvas — and her pictorial language began to take shape.
