Valérie's first exhibition was held in 2007 at Clos Lucé, Leonardo da Vinci's last home. She drew inspiration for this mobile sculpture from his sketches and his prototype for a “helicopter”. The helicoid form plays with the notion of movement of the spiral, colour and volume.
At the age of 33 Valérie Colas des Francs decided she wanted to leave her career in marketing in order to work with her hands, but she was afraid she ...
