Carole Schoettel's work has been shaped by decades of travel — Morocco, West Africa, the Balkans, Greece, Turkey. Each place left a mark. Her paintings use gold leaf and engraved traces and explore memory, presence, and the passage of time.
The subjects in her paintings are sculptures that were exhibited in front of the Collectivité building in Saint-Barthélemy. These sculptures were based on a musical suite written by a French composer, which transforms animal attributes into music.
When she came across the sculptures, its balance felt improbable, almost absurd: an elephant on a sphere, a throne, a tiger. And yet, nothing felt forced. Everything was held together.
Carole Schoettel is a French painter born in Casablanca. She trained at the Atelier de Sèvres in Paris and the École des Beaux-Arts in Casablanca, before working alongside Constantin Nepo — mural painter to King Hassan II of Morocco. Her work has received several international awards and is held in private collections worldwide.