A painter, a small studio, and the long hours between.

Chantal is a self-taught painter working in oil from a converted barn in the hills outside town. Her work — abstracted landscapes, quiet portraits, and small still lives — is held by private collectors across Europe, Australia, and the United States.

She paints slowly. A canvas may sit unfinished for a season while she walks, reads, and waits for it to tell her what it wants. Earth pigments, hand-ground when she can, give her surfaces their warm, fossil-like weight.

She lives and works with her partner and a black dog called Otto.