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Virginie Bastin, aka Miss Sucette, was born in Belgium.
She began to draw when she was a cutle lil girl, while the other childrens were playing soccer together...
She was often alone, alone with her pets and with her drawings.
She grew up surrounded by old horror movies (the kind of movies where the car always broke down in the middle of nowhere...) and old cartoons. As a result, she began to create her own world, her own stories.
With an imagination overflowing, painting was just a result for her, a manner to exorcize her childhood fears.

After receiving her degree in Graphic Design from Sain-Luc Liege in 2006, Miss Sucette quickly felt disgusted by this job. She felt trapped in a lifestyle she hated, and could not give a chance to her creativety as she wanted.
So, as an evidence, she returned to her first love, the painting...

The majority of her work is oil painting. With her own universe, she creates art to propel you in a fantastic world and to talk about what she likes the most.
Animals, nature, science, and symbolism are a central theme for her works.
Trough her paintings, she contemplates life, death, evolution, technology, loss of innocence, cruelty, wars...
Her principal character, called Berangere, is a strange litte girl, who looks a bit like 'The Fly'.
Berangere is a nostalgic woman, she is not beautiful and she is often alone. Berangere rejects technology, industry, and the human being terrorize her.
She feels much closer to animals and nature and rejects everything about the actual system.