Catherine Bon

Filled with light, dreams and magic, Catherine Bon's sculptures have a creative force that connects us to the universe. She shapes matter to bring the invisible to light.

Catherine Bon was born in Lyon in 1958, and was just a few months old when her parents moved to Santiago. A Chilean childhood that, before Belgium and Holland, unfolded in Turkey. Time ticked away far from everything, where her daydreams became a world to be invented. It was in Paris, after her parents' divorce, that life began.

She grew up daydreaming on the benches of boredom at school. It was in Paris, with a diploma in interior architecture from Camondo in her pocket, that she found the first key to the key ring: drawing, design and volume offered her the magical opportunity to work for the great jewellers of Place Vendôme in Paris and Geneva...

While working for a master jeweller in Geneva, she had an important encounter with an Italian sculptor who would create one of Catherine's watercolours in bronze. In exchange, the Italian sculptress gave her a ball of clay, a symbolic gift that gave birth to her first clay, "Beauty and the Beast", on her return to Paris. The seed was in the ground, and this was the first chapter that led to her first exhibition in Paris.