Born in Paris in 1990, Mathilde Batiste learnt the art of drawing and painting from her earliest childhood in the studio of her father, himself a painter. Over the years, she practised in the tradition of the great masters she admired and copied tirelessly, such as Rembrandt, Titian, Ingres, Hammershoï and the Wyeths.

Mathilde's artistic vocation became obvious.

The artist turned to portraiture at an early age, she had indeed always been fascinated by the mystery of the faces painted by Vinci, Rubens, Hogarth, Sargent, Lawrence, Manet and Degas.

Through a series of portrait commissions, she sets out to capture the uniqueness of each face and the universal dimension of its expressiveness.