Catherine Decôme creates art that bridges worlds, weaving together emotions, identities, cultures, and histories.

Rooted in her African and French heritage, her large-scale, layered mixed-media paintings explore ancestral memory, the pilgrimage of the self,and the transformation that emerges from embracing complexity. Each piece becomes a threshold, a meeting place between the visible and theunseen, where personal and collective histories intertwine and the resilience of the human spirit is revealed.

Born in France to a Ghanaian mother, Catherine has always lived in between continents and ways of being. Her childhood was shaped byduality: strict traditions and a vibrant African heritage, structure and imagination. Without television or toys, she turned inward, using imaginationas refuge and drawing as her first language. Dyslexia and a quiet sense of displacement deepened her connection to art, allowing her to expresswhat wAdd bottom pageords could not.

At fifteen, Catherine began an international modeling career that carried her across cultures and continents. Those years expanded herperspective but also heightened her search for belonging. In 2017, during a season of healing and introspection, she experienced what she callsa profound remembering. Encountering a piece of art, she felt a quiet, undeniable recognition, a profound calling to paint. In that moment, aninner knowing awakened: this was her path. What began as therapy soon became a calling; a return not just to painting, but to her roots and the stories carried within her.

Today, her paintings serve as bridges, connecting the personal and the universal, the ancestral and the contemporary, the human and the infinite.Faces and forms emerge from textured layers that mirror the many selves, stories, and histories we each carry. The earthy tones and pigmentsecho the red soil of Africa, grounding her work in a sense of place and heritage. From afar, the pieces read as unified forms; up close, they revealhidden details, much like the layers of identity and memory that shape us.

Catherine’s art doesn’t apologize for existing. There’s a raw sincerity in her work, an organic choreography of bodies, gazes, and textures. Shedoesn’t follow trends; she follows an inner knowing. Her brush becomes a bridge between intuition and expression. She dares to go deep,venturing into the darkness to uncover the light, painting bold, unusual faces, and the raw yet profound confrontations of life.

For Decome, painting is an act of remembrance and transformation, a crossing between past and future, shadow and light, intuition and matter.Through her work, she invites us to step into that crossing, discovering harmony within the tension of these contrasts.

Her art asks the quiet questions we often forget to ask:
How do our ancestral memories shape who we are becoming?
How can we transform struggle into strength, and complexity into beauty?
And what bridges within ourselves are still waiting to be crossed?