Pascale is a figurative artist, paintress and storyteller. She creates from her home studio, The Garudio, in the leafy suburb of Eltham, Victoria, a place known for its artistic community and Montsalvat Arts Centre, a European-inspired artists’ colony, where she also worked for five years.
She loves to draw and paint people, telling their stories through the use of colour, imagery and human emotion including love, loss and humour. Pascale likes to look to the past and is drawn to themes exploring inheritance, nostalgia, foreign language, travel, nature, music and time.
Originally from Kent in England, Pascale graduated with a BA Combined Hons in French and Fine Art from the University of Exeter and was an art student at the Ecole Européenne Supérieure d'art de Bretagne, Rennes, France, on an integral foreign placement in the third year of her four-year degree.
She is a passionate Francophile, speaks fluent French and has spent many months in France though family holidays, education and employment with the Eurostar Group. Her maternal family is from south-west France and this part of the world holds a special place in her heart.
Pascale completed a BTEC in Design for Interiors in London and then worked in the interior design industry in Kent, London and Melbourne for fifteen years. She is influenced by maximalist, Mediterranean, Moorish, Bohemian and vintage interiors and loves bold, pattern, bright colours and lush nature.
Since immigrating to Melbourne twenty years ago, Pascale has loved living in Australia and travels regularly to keep exploring the country. In lockdown she began to research her family history and has been particularly drawn to the immigration story of her paternal Scottish ancestry, tracing branches to Australia, Canda and the U.S.A.. She plans to add family trees to her portfolio in the near future.
As a women’s health advocate in the breast cancer community and co-founder of Flat Life Australia, she also uses her lived personal experience and her mother's early death from inherited breast cancer to shape her art, calling for improved visibility and greater awareness in this space. Her fascination with 'mermaids' emerged from her health crisis and this has provided many opportunities for sanctuary, escapism and charitable work.