All About Paints and Painting (Gina Pane)
Anne Tronche: Did you know that she was originally a painter? Her first works, exhibited in the 1960s at the Simone Heller Gallery, expressed the dogma of concrete art and geometry. This explains why her actions were so controlled by reasoning and intelligence.
Jean-Louis Raymond: She was seen as an artist very much in the classical tradition of painting. In her classes [at Le Mans School of Art] she asserted the mystery of what has been thought in order to restore a depth of view worthy of human dignity. At the same time she wanted her students to learn |a symbolic order articulating formal intentions with emotional content.| She went far beyond strictly educational assignments in an attempt to express the necessity of creativity. I would say that with her it was a question of inspiration … I am certain she was highly emotional, that was the reason why she did not want things to be uncontrolled.