I am a graphic designer, calligrapher and hand letterer. I am originally from Avignon, France. After studying fine art and graphic design in Grenoble, France, I worked as a graphic designer for a variety of magazines and design studios in Paris. Travelling to South America in 1961, I decided to settle in Lima, Peru, where I opened by own graphic design studio. For the next 25 years, I designed logotypes, corporate identities, and publications, many of which won awards for excellence. I also taught graphic design at the Catholic University in Lima, and during my seven year tenure, was the dean of the Graphic Design school. One of my most influential calligraphy teachers was Hermann Zapf, with whom I studied in Rochester, New York. Shortly after this period of study in the mid-1980s, I moved to the United States. I lived in New York and in Miami before coming to the west coast.

Since arriving in San Francisco, I have taught calligraphy, letterforms and typography at the Academy of Art University as well as other calligraphy classes and workshops in the San Francisco Bay area, and have engaged in freelance design. In 1997 I travelled and taught calligraphy workshops in Mexico City and San Luis Potosi, Mexico. I was an instructor at Soundings, the International Calligraphy Conference in Tacoma, Washington in 1996, at PenUltima in Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada in 1999, and at A Calligraphic Odyssey in Boston, Massachusetts in 2001.Beginning in 2002, I have spent my summer vacations teaching calligraphy in Lima, Peru.

My work has been exhibited in Mexico City, San Luis Potosi and San Francisco. It has been published widely, and is represented with several examples in the Harrison Calligraphy Collection at the San Francisco Public Library, and in the Harry Ransom Humanities Center, University of Texas at Austin. My calligraphy is also in private collections in the United States, Europe and South America.