Odile Cariteau

She was born in the desert of Mauritania (Western Africa) in 1959, where she spent 20 years, and now lives in the south of France.

During her youth, she has ever been preccupied by philosophic and aesthetic questions. The contemplation of such an arid and inhosptable land drove her in a philosophic way of Life based on meditation.

Later, when adult, she was appealed by Asia, expecially by Zen tradition and by ancient paintings of landscape where she found calm, beauty and proximity with the Nature.

She shows her paintings in France, Spain, Italy, Japan and Korea, and, by the way, builds a bridge between Orient and Occident.