Isabelle Thomas

From a very young age, I have always been drawn to faces — I would try to "scan" them.

My mother used to tell me:

"don't stare at people like that!"

But I started drawing them instead.

I began with:

• "classic" black-and-white portraits,
• writers like François Mauriac,
• politicians like Charles de Gaulle and François Mitterrand.

Then I wanted to go further, to move beyond the PURELY physical aspect of the portrait — I wanted to DIG DEEPER!

And so came the idea of combining the portrait with an astrological study of my subjects' birth charts.

I created my own symbolism of the signs and planets, and this gave rise to my ASTRO-PSYCHOLOGICAL portraits.

Each subject drawn has their own symbol,

• NONE is ever the same!
• NO drawing looks like another!

It represents "the soul of the person".

I have created more than a hundred drawings, which I have exhibited in galleries, including a major exhibition in Paris, on Avenue George V.

Drawing portraits remains one of the passions of my life.