After a career as a window dresser and decorator in Caen, Christine Desfoux recently moved to her new studio in Bricqueville-sur-Mer, on the Channel coastline that inspires her.
Here, she creates one-off decorative objects using driftwood from our beaches and wood from shipwrecks.
More recently, she has also been making city bags and fashion accessories from used oyster bags, always with the same approach: to give a second life to these rejects from the sea.
The circuit is very short. Christine Desfoux collects the bags and other waste from the sea in the oyster beds of the salt marshes from local oyster farmers: Ets Adam in Bricqueville-sur-Mer and Ets Lenfant in Saint-Martin-de-Bréhal. The pouches are then washed, brushed, painted, accessorized and finished off with a touch of driftwood. A way of doing something for the planet: being trendy but eco-responsible.
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ROMAIN LENFANT AND HIS SISTER SARAH GROW BOUCHOT MUSSELS AND OYSTERS. BRICQUEVILLE, NORMANDY, FRANCE , SEPTEMBER 2016.
