1. Your name evokes sensuality, rebellion, and a baroque imagination. What is the story behind this artistic identity?
This artistic identity imposed itself naturally. My inner world has always been shaped by powerful, untamed feminine figures-free, visionary women, carrying independence rooted in a higher faith, a sense of inherent grandeur, a sensual sensitivity, and a longing for both spiritual and physical freedom. Women inhabited by a dance of the soul with the Divine.
Angélique was born from the need to embody this inner imaginary in its purest form.
Through this name, I also affirm my belief in feminine faculties: instinct, perception of the visible and the invisible, the intensification of the senses through passion, and this intuitive reading of the world that society has often tried to contain, obscure, or render subversive.
For me, Angélique represents a cosmic vision of womanhood, at the intersection of nature, the sacred, and a guiding force for human society.
This name becomes a strength, a tool, but above all a language. It allows me to express an idea of total freedom, unbound, connected to an absolute quest for knowledge and to an unshakable, incandescent inner divinity.
The mystics of the 13th century, such as Marguerite Porete, Teresa of Ávila, and Angela of Foligno, deeply nourished this construction: they express a raw spiritual sensuality, a cosmic fusion where the divine becomes the matrix of living matter.
Angélique des Anges thus becomes a spiritual position: a belief in woman as a universal mystical force, and in the possible emergence of a new era, born from an awakened sacred feminine.
2. How would you describe the world of “Angélique” in a few words?
The world of Angélique is a liminal space, situated between the visible and the invisible.
It is inhabited by learned women who have taken a vow of elevation, transcendence, and attentive study of the world around them.
Women as spheres, women as stars. They cultivate both the earth and the spirit, enriching matter as much as ether.
This universe is a personal cosmogony, shaped by observation, study, and contemplation of beauty as a catalyst for the divine.
It is a world where women are light and knowledge, where the beauty of the female body becomes the exact mirror of the beauty of the world, an awakening of the senses, the heart, and the mind, deeply connected to the knowledge of life. The primordial woman becomes a material of creation, regeneration, and the rethinking of the world.
3. What was your first strong encounter with plants, the one that set you on the path to herbalism?
For me, the plant world is intimately linked to childhood. A wild, mysterious childhood, filled with the scent of humus, of dark matter becoming life.
The plant then appears as a silent answer, a guide, a guardian of ancient knowledge.
My first encounters with plants are vivid, almost initiatory memories, which connected me to a deeper nature, to a primordial secret.
These moments acted as a revelation: the plant became a mirror of my place and role in the world, an intuitive response to a long-standing inner call.
4. As a model, your body becomes a visual language. As an herbalist, the plant becomes knowledge. How do these two dimensions interact?
A plant can be understood as information: a living message that activates and transforms. It acts on receptors, on subtle circulations, calling for a metamorphosis of body and mind.
In the same way, the body in my modeling work becomes a vector of transformation. It bends to intention, to spirit, to creative impulse. It is transmutation, just like the plant that transforms water, light, and minerals from the earth into living energy.
A dialogue emerges: the plant transmutes light into life, and the body transmutes light into energy: a visible reflection of an inner transformation.
5. What does herbalism teach you about beauty, and what does beauty teach you about herbalism?
Herbalism teaches the notion of universal harmony.
The harmony of forms, the harmony of a plant’s chemical composition in its entirety.
Each plant delivers a message, and when observing its active compounds, one often discovers a remarkable internal balance. Sometimes the side effects of a plant are counterbalanced by other molecules within the same plant. It is a lesson in the intelligence of life.
This conveys the idea that disharmony becomes the expression of illness, and that healing through the plant message is not only about addressing symptoms, but about restoring a broken harmony.
Beauty, in turn, cannot exist without this harmony.
There is no beauty of the body without beauty of the spirit. To ingest spiritual beauty and “organic” beauty is to nourish the body through life itself, which then expresses deep health, global regeneration, and reflects a beauty born of harmony.
6. Plants often carry emotional symbolism. Is there one that best reflects your personality?
As a woman of many facets: both light and shadow, limiting myself to one plant would be reductive.
I rather express a trinity: the rose, the lily, and yarrow.
The rose is solar, sensual, Marian: carnal fragrance, color and form. It represents mystical memory, desire, self-offering, the softness and pain of the thorn.
The lily is mastered purity, silent contemplation, divinity, transcendence, elevation, intimate prayer, restraint, silence, presence and surrender, spirituality, protection, and verticality.
Yarrow is wild, witch-like, connected to blood, movement, purification, earthy and intense. It knows deep inner wounds, regulates vital flow, and carries ancestral memory.
If I were a plant, I would be the intertwining of these three forces: sensuality, purity, and freedom.
7. Your imagery blends softness, sensuality, and nature. What role does ritual play in your work?
Ritual is fundamental to balance.
I think of the rituals integrated throughout a woman’s life: rituals of the body, of time, of light. Preparing our body for the outside world, finding our place within the whole, preparing for a plunge into the Divine.
These rituals are essential in modeling: harmonizing body and spirit to present one’s most radiant form. Through herbalism, I draw from tradition, essential oils, plant extracts, buds—to support my rhythms, my energy, my cycles. Plants are subtle companions, olfactory and spiritual talismans, part of my personal rituals, choosing the guardians of my day.
My favorite plant talisman is a blend of neroli, yellow sandalwood, and myrrh—a vibrational thread between my body and soul.
8. What currently inspires you?
My inspiration is primarily poetic.
Mystical poetry deeply nourishes me: Hadewijch of Antwerp, William Blake, Novalis, Meister Eckhart, Emily Dickinson, Simone Weil, Yeats… Mystical female figures such as Juana Inés de la Cruz, Hildegard of Bingen, and Marguerite Porete have also profoundly shaped me.
Alchemy, cosmology, esoteric texts—this knowledge forms a constant source I return to.
These writings are presences made of fire, silence, and eternal incandescence.
9. Do you have a personal method to create a space where you can be woman, herbalist, and artist?
This space exists within.
I deeply resonate with Virginia Woolf’s idea of “a room of one’s own”, an inviolable, intimate, sacred space. It can be physical or contained in a simple box, like a portable altar.
I gather small objects: shells, dried plants, snake skins, stones, candles, perfumes. This becomes a mobile sanctuary: a capsule that reconnects me to my inner sacred self.
10. How do you reconcile your love of plants with modeling, which can feel disconnected from ecological concerns?
Introducing ecological, rather, sensitive, values into imagery is not a contradiction, though it requires conviction. I use my image to carry values, to reflect both beauty and the fragility of the world.
Each image becomes a silent transmission of respect.
11. Is there a landscape that plays a spiritual role in your life?
My relationship to nature is rooted in childhood.
Nature became an inner cosmos, where the intimate and the natural merge and become sacred. My spiritual space is not a single place, but a layering of landscapes: streams, mountains, paths. Any place can become a temple. It is through intention that we sacralize the world.
12. A simple ecological beauty gesture you recommend?
I always carry a small pouch of seeds. It is a simple, poetic act: an offering to life. A quiet faith in the continuity of the living.
13. A plant that is underestimated?
Nettle.
Fascinating and misunderstood, deeply nourishing and ecologically essential. It embodies a discreet generosity and protective force.
14. A plant that fascinates you as a muse?
Angelica (Angelica archangelica). A plant both rooted and celestial, deeply sacred, linking earth and sky.
15. Your emotional herbarium?
Yarrow, rose, and lily. Wild, sensual, and sacred: a journey from blood to heart to spirit.
16. Where is the boundary between you and “Angélique”?
She is not a mask, but a mirror and a protection. A passage from social identity to a complete anima.
17. What projections do people place on you, and how do you engage with them?
People often see me as an apparition, like a figure from an old painting.
I embrace these projections, but also move beyond them. True alchemy happens when my inner world meets that of an artist, creating images that leave a trace in the soul.
18. What is something surprising about you?
Few know that my daily life is rooted in a scientific environment. I am self-taught artistically. Science and mysticism are not opposed: they illuminate each other.
19. What is your vital force?
A white flame, gentle yet powerful. An energy that connects microcosm and macrocosm, bringing harmony and meaning.
20. What kind of projects inspire you today?
Projects driven by vision. Where beauty, imagination, science, nature, and the sacred come together to shape a new world.